IT MIGHT make airports smell like a Thai restaurant, but a group of American biochemists think soya oil is just the thing to give aviation fuel a greener future.
They say that an aircraft fuel based on soya oil and traditional jet fuel will slash consumption of fossil fuel, and help slow the rise in greenhouse gas levels by using carbon from renewable sources. They will tell a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, California, next week how it can be done.
Commercial jets run on a petroleum fuel called Jet A. Like all fossil fuels, it releases…
