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Boeing, Hainan Airlines, Sinopec Celebrate China's First Commercial Flight with Sustainable Aviation Biofuel

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BEIJING, March 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE:BA], Hainan Airlines and Sinopec today celebrated China's first passenger flight with sustainable aviation biofuel, a key environmental milestone for China's commercial aviation industry. The regularly scheduled Hainan Airlines flight – which carried more than 100 passengers from Shanghai to Beijing in a Next-Generation 737-800 – used biofuel made by Sinopec from waste cooking oil collected from restaurants in China. Both of the… (boeing.mediaroom.com) More...

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Ric Wernicke -1
Here we go again with the biofuel is sustainable argument. This falls flat because there is no proof that fossil fuel is about to run out. The stone age did not end because we were out of stones. The mechanized transportation age will not end because we are short of hydrocarbons. Oil is a continuous process carried out by nature fueled by the sun.

Humans as farmers are a more finite source of food. We should not be burning the food to buzz around. Until everyone is fed on a reliable basis, motor fuels must remain indigestible.
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DSHartje
Dwight Hartje -1
You are totally correct! Most of those estements don't take into account new fossil fuel sites being found every day!
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linbb 1
The expense of bio fuel in relation to fossil fuel if used would make costs go up it may be cleaner burning but to get the same out of it for power you will use more. To produce it from scratch farming to finish it takes as much fuel to do it as it produces so its not a win win deal its a win loose only.
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bentwing60
bentwing60 -1
Can you say, "follow the money".
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