{"id":6032,"date":"2012-01-18T06:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:20","slug":"biofuels-could-be-aviations-standard-in-five-years-lufthansa-chief-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/biofuels-could-be-aviations-standard-in-five-years-lufthansa-chief-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa: Biofuels Could Be Aviation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Standard in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6034\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DN_LH_A321_BIOFUEL_courtesy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DN_LH_A321_BIOFUEL_courtesy-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DN_LH_A321_BIOFUEL_courtesy\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6034\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via ATW<\/figcaption><\/figure>Joachim Buse, Lufthansa airline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head of aviation biofuel, last week said at an industry event in Washington, D.C. that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/archives\/biofuel-options.htm\" target=\"_blank\">biofuels<\/a> could be the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s standard fuel in five to seven years.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/atwonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Air Transport World<\/a>, the airline executive said his company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/burnfair\/\" target=\"_blank\">burnFAIR project<\/a> has shown that biofuels are a feasible proposition for commercial flights from a technological point of view. What needs to be done now is to make sure there is enough production and from sustainable feedstocks. He told ATW that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153from now on, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s purely a commercial issue.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>One day before Joachim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk, a flight between Frankfurt and Washington using a Boeing 747 400 carried 40 tons of a biosynthetic fuel mix. Between mid-July and late December, Lufthansa had four daily roundtrip flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt as part of burnFAIR.<\/p>\n<p>Joachim said that in order for biofuels to become a routine within the aviation industry, government assistance and commercial practices will be necessary. burnFAIR cost Lufthansa \u00e2\u201a\u00ac6.6 million ($8.4 million). Out of the total, \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2.5 million were covered with subsidies from the German government.<\/p>\n<p><em>The use of biofuels by airlines is likely to revive the &#8216;food versus fuel&#8217; debate. What do you think? 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