Thursday 6 October 2011

First Spanish flight with biofuel


Last Tuesday, Iberia airlines realized the first spanish flight with biofuel. The plane take off Madrid´s airport at 11 o'clock and land at 12 in Barcelona with no problems.
This 'green flight' is a 20% cleaner than flights using other fuels.
There was no need to adapt the plane for this biofuel, wich is formed in a 25% of a no-eatable plant called "camelina" and the 75% of tradicional fuel.
During the flight, there was consumed about 2,600 kilos of a mixture of camelina and fuel savings that have allowed about 1,500 kilos in CO2 emissions, according to Iberia.
I think it's a new form to contrubue to saving the air of the atmosphere and to help to the climatic change. Day by day we're making our world a place a little bit cleaner.
By: Marta Iglesias Martínez-Almeida

1 comment:

RMM said...

Very interesting Marta,
Can you give us some more information about the plant "camelina", I've never heard of it!!!
Thanks

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