{"id":1010,"date":"2009-04-06T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2009-04-06T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T04:04:00","slug":"algae-biofuel-gains-importance-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/algae-biofuel-gains-importance-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Biofuel Gains Importance in Aviation Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the continent\u2019s airspace by half a million tonnes a year by using a different landing approach and planning the use of bio-fuels, aviation industry groups said.<\/p>\n<p>Industry officials have described the approach as a \u201cwin-win for all.\u201d The airline industry was also looking to start using bio-fuels within the next few years and was hoping for certification by as early as 2010. Boeing\u2019s Bill Glover told reporters he expected bio-fuels to achieve \u201ccommercial availability in three to five years,\u201d although critics have said their use is making farmers move toward growing food for fuel, raising food prices and lessening its availability of a resource that grows only annually in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>Executives at the conference said they were aiming to use second- generation bio-fuels, including some derived from algae, so as to not drain food and water resources. \u201cWe want to get 100 percent from bio-fuels that don\u2019t compete with food supplies,\u201d said Peter Steele of the Air Transport Action Group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurope.eu\/articles\/93921.php\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the continent\u2019s airspace by half a million tonnes a year by using a different landing approach and planning the use of bio-fuels, aviation industry groups said. Industry officials have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel","category-algae-cultivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}