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Virgin Atlantic: Recycled steel emissions could power its planes

September 15, 2016

We know that aviation is very carbon intensive. And we also know that steel production uses a huge amount of energy, creating its own emissions problems. Now, as reported at Bloomberg, a partnership between US-based LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic claims to have produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from low-carbon ethanol.

The ethanol is created by capturing waste carbon monoxide gas from steel mills. Instead of burning that carbon monoxide off as carbon dioxide, the carbon is instead captured via fermentation to alcohol, producing an ethanol feedstock. Each gallon of ethanol produced delivers half a gallon of aviation fuel.

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