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<br>It's bad enough for some [prop airplanes](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) to be described as being powered by rubber bands. Now the [skeptics](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) might begin having a dig at business aircraft flying on whatever from cooking oil to melted algae.<br> |
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<br>With the civil aviation industry under increasing [pressure](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) from rising oil prices and ecological legislation, the race is on to find practical options to [conventional kerosene](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) and these up until now seem to boil down to different types of [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL).<br> |
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<br>Not remarkably, the first trials of alternative fuel were started by British air travel leader, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic began London to Amsterdam flights with limited [biofuel](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) usage in 2008. This was quickly followed by and Air New Zealand who each used different blends of regular fuel and bio derivatives including some from made from [jatropha](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) which can grow in soil considered too poor for growing mainstream foods items.<br> |
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<br>[Jatropha](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) is a genus of around 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like [Jatropha curcas](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm)), from the household Euphorbiaceae.<br> |
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<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs mentioned [Jatropha](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) [jatropha curcas](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) as one of the best prospects for future [biodiesel](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) production. It is resistant to dry spell and pests, and produces seeds consisting of 27-40% oil.<br> |
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<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical significant Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation moved to perform research and development into using biofuels to power jet airliners. It was reported that [Brazilian airline](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) companies Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would function as strategic specialists for the project.<br> |
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<br>The most recent airline company to start [explore](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has actually conducted internal US flights utilizing a blend of 80 % petroleum based fuel and 20% [biofuel](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) made from cooking oil. This mixture, it is claimed, can [cut hazardous](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) emissions by 10%.<br> |
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<br>One actually motivating advancement has actually been the move far from biofuels which complete head on with food customers therefore preventing a [rate spiral](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/). Not so long back, a surge in usage of biofuels in [vehicles triggered](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) a spike in maize costs as US farmers [diverted](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) too much corn to fuel processing.<br> |
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<br>Hopefully in the future, airline companies and motorists will focus [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) consumption on non-food sources such as [jatropha](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) and algae. It would be a blended true blessing indeed if some people wound up starving just to please somebody else's green credentials.<br> |
