{"id":2586,"date":"2015-07-06T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:52:04","slug":"united-to-use-fuel-made-from-farm-waste-and-animal-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/07\/united-to-use-fuel-made-from-farm-waste-and-animal-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines to use aviation fuel made from farm waste and animal fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/united-biofuels.jpg\" alt=\"United airlines biofuels powered flight\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/united-biofuels.jpg 410w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/united-biofuels-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/>This summer a United Airlines flight from LA to San Francisco will take off with fuel containing a mix of animal fats and farm waste, in what will be\u00a0the first time a domestic airline has run a\u00a0regular passenger flight using an alternative jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The airline has also just announced that it is to make a $30 million investment in one of the largest producers of aviation biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy. Commenting to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, Debbie Hammel,\u00a0a senior resource specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), who focuses on biofuel, said: \u201cThere is a significant role for biofuels within the aviation sector, specifically for reducing carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6>In Brief<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"350\" data-total-count=\"2476\">Fulcrum has developed a way of\u00a0converting municipal waste into aviation fuel\u00a0that it says\u00a0can cut an airline\u2019s carbon emissions by 80 percent compared with traditional jet fuel.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"350\" data-total-count=\"2476\">Fulcrum says it can produce its biofuel for considerably cheaper than\u00a0$1 a gallon. United has said that\u00a0its deal with Fulcrum is competitive with the price of traditional jet fuel.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"350\" data-total-count=\"2476\">In 2014,\u00a0United\u2019s fleet consumed 3.9 billion gallons of fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In Depth<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the\u00a0original article, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2015\/06\/30\/united-airlines-invests-30m-in-fulcrum-bioenergy-inks-1-5b-in-aviation-biofuels-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United Airlines invests $30M in Fulcrum BioEnergy; inks $1.5B+ in aviation biofuels contracts<\/a>&#8216; on Biofuels Digest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outbounding.org\/articles\/view\/united-airlines-has-figured-out-a-way-to-turn-food-waste-into-fuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Discuss the issues raise<\/a>d in the article on Outbounding.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2015\/06\/30\/united-airlines-invests-30m-in-fulcrum-bioenergy-inks-1-5b-in-aviation-biofuels-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Biofuels Digest on Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Download the NRDC&#8217;s 2014 report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/energy\/aviation-biofuel-sustainability-survey\/files\/aviation-biofuel-sustainability-survey-IB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aviation Biofuels Sustainability Survey<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In the Future<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines will this summer become the first domestic airline to run a regular passenger flight using an alternative jet fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,287,262,12],"tags":[36,298],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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