Japanese Airline Tests Biofuel Blend Made From Flowers, Algae.

The UK's Daily Mail (1/29) reported, "Japan Airlines has become the fourth airline in a year to use biofuel during a test flight." The company test-flew a Boeing 747-300, powered "by 50 per cent traditional jet fuel" and 50 percent biofuel made up of camelina, jatropha, and algae." Said Yasunori Abe, chief of JAL's global environment division, "From a long-term perspective, we need to search for a fuel that can replace petroleum. Biofuel is especially attractive because CO2 emissions from biofuel can be seen as zero.'"