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A new production plant will soon crank out jet fuel made from trash. As airlines seek to lower their carbon footprint and cities struggle with growing...
Following in the footsteps of Qatar's gas-powered aircraft, Airbus's E-Fan and the solar impulse, we now come to Garbage Air, where the circular economy serves air transport (and not just air transport).
As a reminder: British Airways' CO2 target:
British Airways, which has a goal to reduce its net carbon emissions 50 percent by 2050, has signed a letter of intent to purchase all fuel produced at the plant to power part of its fleet.
The site of the company treating the waste: http://www.solenafuels.com/
The solution:
Solena's Integrated Biomass-Gas to Liquid "IBGTL" solution is based on an industry-proven Fischer-Tropsch platform coupled with Solena's proprietary high temperature plasma gasification technology to produce sustainable fuels from low carbon-bearing organic waste.
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