If you were trying to find a link between fish farms, saltwater plants known as halophytes and mangrove forests, it’s unlikely that renewable jet fuel would be near the top of your list.
Yet these three elements are being combined in a project in Abu Dhabi to develop “a clean, alternative aviation fuel” that has been used for the first time in a commercial flight, from the emirate to Amsterdam. The biofuel made up only a tiny percentage of the flight’s fuel load but is the first step in the initiative’s ambitious aim to create a bioenergy industry that can be sited in arid coastal regions, producing both food and fuel without using land that is needed to grow crops or polluting the oceans…
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