{"id":229439,"date":"2010-01-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-2695938695310967881"},"modified":"2010-01-26T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:24:09","slug":"masdar-and-boeing%e2%80%99s-qatari-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229439","title":{"rendered":"Masdar and Boeing\u2019s Qatari catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleantech.com has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/masdar\">Masdar<\/a>&#8216;s aim to get into the biofuel for air transport market using <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/sea-asparagus-oil.html\">saliconia<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantech.com\/news\/5504\/masdar-and-boeing%E2%80%99s-qatari-catch\">Masdar and Boeing\u2019s Qatari catch-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Not to be upstaged by a similar announcement last week, a Masdar-led consortium today reiterated its own jet fuel from saltwater plant project, with an airline partner.<\/p>\n<p>Masdar, Boeing and Honeywell\u2019s UOP today announced details of a jet fuel from saltwater plant research project first acknowledged four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>And included today was a new partner: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is to lead the project, aimed at assessing the technical, commercial and environmental viability of producing large scale jet fuel and co-products from the saltwater herb salicornia.<\/p>\n<p>Others are investigating salicornia for biofuel use, given the plant\u2019s tolerance for seawater, including experimental fields in Ras al-Zawr in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea in Northeast Africa, and Sonora in Northwest Mexico aimed at the production of biodiesel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cleantech.com also has a set of pictures of the (slowly) emerging Masdar city &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantech.com\/news\/5505\/masdar-city-pictures\">Pictures from a walking tour of Masdar City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantech.com\/news\/5515\/most-masdar-city\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cleantech.com\/news\/ctcfiles\/u2\/IMG_2519s.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-2695938695310967881?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uGUJyP7eQVE-YrSIK7TUHQax6gk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uGUJyP7eQVE-YrSIK7TUHQax6gk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uGUJyP7eQVE-YrSIK7TUHQax6gk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uGUJyP7eQVE-YrSIK7TUHQax6gk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleantech.com has an article on Masdar&#8216;s aim to get into the biofuel for air transport market using saliconia &#8211; Masdar and Boeing\u2019s Qatari catch-up. Not to be upstaged by a similar announcement last week, a Masdar-led consortium today reiterated its own jet fuel from saltwater plant project, with an airline partner. Masdar, Boeing and Honeywell\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}