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From green slime to jet fuel: algae offers airlines a cleaner future

2016-06-15 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: As airlines struggle to find cleaner ways to power jets and with an industry-wide meeting on CO2 emissions just months away, scientists are busy growing algae in vast open tanks at an Airbus site at Ottobrun, near Munich. The European aerospace group is part-financing the Munich Technical University project to grow algae for biofuel and, although commercial production is a long way off, hopes are high. Thomas Brueck, Munich TU's associate professor of industrial biocatalysis, says that the...

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