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+<br>It's bad enough for some prop planes to be explained as being powered by elastic band. Now the [skeptics](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) could start having a dig at industrial aircraft flying on everything from [cooking oil](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) to [melted algae](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price).<br>
+<br>With the civil air travel market under increasing pressure from increasing oil costs and [ecological](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) legislation, the race is on to discover viable alternatives to standard kerosene and these so far seem to boil down to different types of [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL).<br>
+<br>Not remarkably, the very first trials of [alternative fuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) were started by British air travel pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, whose [Virgin Atlantic](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4) started London to Amsterdam flights with minimal [biofuel](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) usage in 2008. This was rapidly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each used different blends of routine fuel and bio derivatives [consisting](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) of some from made from [jatropha curcas](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) which can grow in soil thought about too poor for  foodstuffs.<br>
+<br>[jatropha curcas](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4) is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like [Jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd)), from the household Euphorbiaceae.<br>
+<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs cited [Jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) as one of the very best [candidates](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) for future [biodiesel](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) production. It is resistant to drought and bugs, and produces seeds consisting of 27-40% oil.<br>
+<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical major Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation relocated to perform research and [advancement](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) into using biofuels to [power jet](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) airliners. It was reported that Brazilian airline companies Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would act as strategic experts for the project.<br>
+<br>The most recent airline to start try out new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has actually performed internal US flights using a blend of 80 % [petroleum based](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) fuel and 20% [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) made from cooking oil. This mixture, it is declared, can cut hazardous emissions by 10%.<br>
+<br>One actually encouraging development has been the relocation away from biofuels which complete head on with food consumers thus preventing a cost spiral. Not so long ago, a surge in usage of biofuels in automobiles caused a spike in maize costs as US farmers diverted excessive corn to fuel processing.<br>
+<br>Hopefully in the future, airlines and drivers will focus biofuel [consumption](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) on non-food sources such as [jatropha](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) and algae. It would be a combined true blessing undoubtedly if some individuals ended up starving just to satisfy somebody else's green qualifications.<br>