January 15, 2009 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden
Soaring or Bobbing: Which Is Greener?
Last year Virgin Atlantic ran a Boeing 747-400 from London to Amsterdam using an aviation fuel mix containing coconut oil biofuel. Undoubtedly a triumph of technical engineering, it was also labeled “high-altitude greenwash” by environmentalists. The problem was a familiar one.
“If Virgin would power its entire fleet with biofuel, it would have to use about half of the UK’s arable land.”
- Jos Dings, European Federation of Transport and the Environment
Last week, a Continental Boeing 737-800 took a
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