{"id":469,"date":"2007-11-09T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2007-11-09T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:27:00","slug":"embraer-plans-biofuel-from-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/embraer-plans-biofuel-from-native.html","title":{"rendered":"Embraer Plans Biofuel from Native Plants for Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>. See the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">complete list of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Embraer Plans biofuel from Native Plants for Aircraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer will seek to demonstrate the feasibility of a biofuel-powered jet aircraft using native plants &#8211; such as palm leaves, coconut oil and castor oil &#8211; as the fuel source.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft platform used to conduct the demonstration will remain undecided until the availability of the biofuel source is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Embraer\u2019s plans follow Boeing\u2019s announcement in June that it plans in 2008 to demonstrate an algae-based biofuel on a General Electric-powered Virgin Atlantic 747 and a Rolls-Royce-powered Air New Zealand 747.<\/p>\n<p>Full news story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/01\/219094\/embraer-plans-biofuel-test-for-turbofan-powered-fleet.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color:red;\">Nature <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/oil\/or\/or.html\">gave us<\/a><\/span> oil from algae; perhaps <span style=\"color:blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/story\/story.html\">we should try<\/a><\/span> Nature&#8217;s way again<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/\">Oilgae<\/a><\/b>; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">List of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/algae\/oil\/biod\/research\/os\/algos.html\">algOS &#8211; Biodiesel from Algae Open Source<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Oilgae<\/b> has a focus on biodiesel production from algae while also discussing alternative energy in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Embraer Plans biofuel from Native Plants for Aircraft Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer will seek to demonstrate the feasibility of a biofuel-powered jet aircraft using native plants &#8211; such as palm leaves, coconut oil and castor oil &#8211; as the fuel source. The [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}