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Clean Getaway: Meat Waste Joins Biofuels At Luxury Jet Show
By Allison Lampert
LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) – At the world’s most significant market show in Las Vegas high-end jets are luring buyers with their smooth silhouettes, luxurious cabins – and increasingly, their usage of alternative fuels.
Fuel producers and jetmakers are eager to showcase unique forms of air travel fuel considered less damaging to the environment, from utilized cooking oil to the noticeably less glamorous meat waste.
Business jet operators, like airlines, have acquiesced ecological pressure on aviation and committed to cutting in half carbon emissions by 2050 compared to 2005.
Their hope is that adopting renewable fuel to curb emissions might make service jets more attractive to environmentally mindful purchasers – especially corporations facing questions over sustainability from shareholders or green project groups.
The availability of less contaminating private jets might also spare the rich and famous the experienced by Britain’s Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a recent private jet journey to southern France.
Five Gulfstream jets on screen in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.
The current waste-based fuels consist of “fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food market,” stated Bryan Sherbacow, primary business officer of Boston-based biofuel manufacturer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste utilized by Gulfstream.
“All of our product is inedible.”
Some of the other 79 airplane on display are expected to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other sustainable fuel blends anticipated to be pumped at the show.
FLIGHT SHAMING
Private jets account for less than 0.1% of overall annual carbon emissions internationally, however can release, usually, as much as 20 times more carbon emissions per passenger mile than jetliners, according to the London-based personal charter firm Victor.
Prince Harry has actually protected his periodic usage of personal jets to guarantee his household’s security, and has said that on the rare celebrations he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.
But planemakers say events such as the furore over his schedule have actually added fresh obstacles for an industry already striving to justify its contribution to cutting business expenses.
“Incidents of flight shaming involving making use of personal jets are regrettable when you think about that our market has provided fuel performance enhancements of 40% over the past 40 years,” stated Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.
Bombardier thinks increased sustainable fuel use will assist the market make inroads with corporations and wealthy purchasers. According to market data, billionaires only have a 19% service jet ownership rate.
But even an image makeover – with jets sporting stickers like “this aircraft flies on sustainable fuels” and organisers including alternative fuel pumps for going to planes – is unlikely to please all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.
Environmentalists and some experts stay hesitant that biojetfuels, typically mixed 50-50 with kerosene, will make a substantial impact on public perceptions about luxury travel.
“No quantity of Jatropha or Brazil-nut fuel can make business jets look eco-friendly,” said aviation expert Richard Aboulafia.
Demand from service jet operators for eco-friendly fuels now far exceeds supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow said.
World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, might broaden production approximately 150 million gallons by 2022.
Corporate charter business and experts are likewise seeing more interest from clients who desire to buy carbon credits to balance out emissions from their flights.
Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions played a function in a business jet usage study his company just recently finished for a Fortune 500 business.
“At the end of the day, I believe that cost, expense per hour, variety, speed and efficiency, that’s still the (sales) chauffeur. But I believe people are becoming more knowledgeable about the sustainability of operations and how it impacts the world.” (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)