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Wed 25 April 2007 View all news
Virgin Atlantic has announced plans to fly the first commercial aircraft on biofuel in 2008. Virgin says that this could be a significant step towards airlines reducing their oil consumption and CO2 emissions.
Virgin is working in partnership with Boeing and General Electric to run a demonstration 747 aircraft on biofuel next year. The Times reports that the project partners are testing up to eight biofuels to determine which is most effective at altitude. Ethanol, which is increasingly used in combination with petrol in cars, has been rejected because it does not burn well in thin-oxygen environments. Virgin hopes that biofuel-powered aircraft could be operating commercially within five years.
Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Atlantic, launched an alternative fuels division last year, pledging the profits from transport businesses for the next ten years.
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