A concept for turning matter from a single type of plant into a high performance composite material for use in aircraft cabins has won a University of Queensland team first prize in the inaugural Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge.
It is an idea which minimises the use of energy from fossil carbon releasing fuels in the [...]
Tag Archives: green skies
Home grown aircraft composites could also cut fossilised carbon emissions
June 20, 2009 – 10:03 am
Algal fuel breakthrough confirmed
June 18, 2009 – 5:13 pm
If the hysterical tendency in popular debates over the role of airlines in climate change was to have been believed, technology offers no answers to jet engine greenhouse gas emissions.
The results of the 7 January biofuel test flight by a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 were announced today.
The flight was conducted in partnership with Boeing, GE [...]
‘Black vomit nut’ promises cleaner, greener skies
December 1, 2008 – 7:12 pm
The Jatropha family of shrubs gets a bad rap in some parts of the world where it is known as ‘black vomit nut’. In Australia where it’s a declared weed it’s called ‘bellyache bush’, and makes humans and livestock ill if eaten.
But it also makes an aviation grade alternative fuel to kerosene, and with simpler [...]
UK govt robs Qantas to ‘pay’ Emirates
November 26, 2008 – 2:24 pm
The doctrinaire, dare I suggest dishonest, approach of the UK government to adding taxes to air travel to ’save the environment’ comes with some bizarre consequences.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has announced a set of Air Passenger Duty charges which rise according to the distance a jet flies from London which would add £85, [...]
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