2. Boeing has recently started their bio fuel program and discovered an amazing break through. A desert plant that can grow using salt water has enormous potential as a biofuel. a few years ago Boeing began sponsoring biofuel research all over the world in hopes of find not a cheaper fuel better a better quality fuel. so far many biofuels found contain contaminants harmful to jets, however this new fuel looks promisingly safe to use.
3 The primary NOS themes present in this article were of collaboration and curiosity. Boeing sponsored many groups to collaborate and find a useful biofuel. and it was there curiosity of finding a better way that inspired them to do so.
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I read an article a while ago that had to do with the same kind of thing. People figured out that they could use algae to make a bio fuel for car and use the waist to make more algae. Your article is very interesting but I would like to know the name of the plant so maybe i could do some research myself.
ReplyDeleteThis article is very interesting; I really like the "green" and "low cost" themes!
ReplyDeleteWhat I also found pretty cool was that there was such a thing as the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (http://www.safug.org), and about a third of all airlines are part of it! Sustainability is another environmental-friendly topic this article supports.
The most common biofuels today are ethanol and biodiesel. They are both alternative fuel sources, used to reduce vehicle emissions.
This website provides a lot of helpful information on the basics of biofuels (such as ethanol and biodiesel): http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_biofuels.html.
This article was intriguing. It talked about how the biofuel was now usable by jets and technically superior to kerosene oil, but I still some questions. Can they really make biofuel in mass amounts while still sustaining the population of these plants? Even if we can grow tons of this plant in deserts, will it grow fast enough to be a reliable source for jet fuel? There are millions of jets around the world, so it would be hard to use this biofuel for even just half of them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how long will it take for there to be enough of this plant so that the fuel is usable? While this biofuel seems like a good idea, I think that there are still a lot of problems to sort out.
A question I have is if these plants could be domesticated at all, and under what conditions? This could aid is the reduction of fossil fuel use in America as they would be cheaper and more efficient than importing fossil fuels (which, for the time being, we don't do.) Perhaps we could genetically modify these plants to provide even more efficient fuel production.
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