Jumbo Jet No Longer Biofuel Virgin after Palm Oil Fuels Flight

This article is about about a 747-400 plane that traveled from London Heathrow Airport to Shiphol Airport in Amsterdam on a 40 minute flight burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum-based jet fuel. Technicians from Virgin Atlantic, Boeing, GE Aviation (maker of the engine) and fuel provider Imperium Renewables now plan to analyze data collected during the flight to assess the engine's performance and pollution emissions. The Virgin Atlantic flight "is just to prove to industry that you can make fuel that has these cold-flow properties," (does not congeal at lower temperatures), says David Daggett, Boeing's technology leader for energy and emissions. As Boeing's Daggett says: "There are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, but 10 to 20 years is a reasonable time frame for production of biofuels from algae."

My opinion

Some may think "wow were putting about 20% organic gas fuels in the airplane so it will consume less toxic desel. But i dont think its going to help the planet that much because even if you would do this for a very long time, sure it would an impact but not a very great one like stop the path of global warming. But its a possibility of trying this new action and only time itself can say if it will help the environment or not.