Richard Branson, the international entrepreneur and founder of the Carbon War Room, an organization with a mission to fight emissions, recently upped the ante by adding to Virgin Atlantic’s current aim of 30% carbon reductions per passenger kilometer by 2020, to 50% sustainable fuel use by 2020. In October 2011, Virgin Atlantic, LanzaTech Biofuels, and [...]

A month or two ago, the anti-aviation activists at Plane Stupid staged a protest around the 25th birthday of Virgin Atlantic where they teamed up with anti-biofuel protesters and said that the aviation sector was ‘joking’ if it thought that biofuels could help reduce emissions. While their little protest was fun and it is always [...]

The month from 30 December to 30 January will see the aviation industry conduct three different flight trials where traditional jet fuel will be replaced with biofuels. Biofuels are fuels made from plants or algae and they need plenty of CO2 to grow, thus making it possible for the aviation industry to achieve carbon neutrality [...]

While the aviation industry concentrates on blended, sustainable, biofuels as the energy source of the future, blog The Airport Channel outlines a research project based on powering aircraft with a nuclear source. It is an… interesting… notion, but I shan’t pass judgment just yet. One benefit (apart from zero carbon emissions) would be that fuel [...]

It is interesting to reflect on the past couple of years in the aviation industry. When I first became involved in aviation at a global level in 2006, no one really believed biofuels would make much of an impact. In fact, there were those who thought biofuels were an impossible sell to aviation, considering the [...]