{"id":362224,"date":"2010-02-24T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1304\/british-airways-turning-waste-into-jet-fuel.html"},"modified":"2010-02-24T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:07:00","slug":"british-airways-turning-waste-into-jet-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362224","title":{"rendered":"British Airways turning waste into jet fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brit-airways\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/brit-airways.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British Airways has announced that it will start producing jet fuel from landfill waste to reach its target of 50 percent reduced emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishairways.com\/travel\/home\/public\/en_us?countrycode=US&#038;eId=101001\">The airline<\/a> is partnering with biofuels company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solenagroup.com\/\">Solena<\/a> to construct a waste-to-energy fuel plant in East London that will turn 500,000 tonnes of organic waste into 16 million gallons of jet fuel per year.\u00a0 The fuel will be made by treating the the waste in a high-temperature gasifier to create BioSynGas which is then converted to jet fuel using the Fischer Tropsch process.\u00a0 The plant will also create a by-product of 20 MW of electricity per year and have the added benefit of keeping waste out of landfills.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelswatch.com\/bas-waste-to-energy-plans\/\">only committing to use a 10 percent<\/a> blend of the biofuel at this point, a disappointment when you consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/biofuels\/2821-60-slash-in-emissions-during-jatropha-test-flight\">successful test runs<\/a> of 50\/50 bio-jet fuel blends.\u00a0 The airline plans to start using the fuel by 2014.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/british-airways-jet-fuel-landfill-waste.php\">Treehugger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/hxytam1ibc4\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways has announced that it will start producing jet fuel from landfill waste to reach its target of 50 percent reduced emissions by 2050. The airline is partnering with biofuels company Solena to construct a waste-to-energy fuel plant in East London that will turn 500,000 tonnes of organic waste into 16 million gallons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362224","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\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}