Add Clean Getaway: Meat Waste Joins Biofuels At Luxury Jet Show
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<br>By Allison Lampert<br>
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<br>LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's most significant market show in Las [Vegas luxury](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) jets are enticing purchasers with their streamlined silhouettes, plush cabins - and increasingly, their usage of alternative fuels.<br>
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<br>Fuel producers and jetmakers are keen to showcase unique kinds of aviation fuel deemed less hazardous to the climate, from utilized cooking oil to the noticeably less glamorous meat waste.<br>
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<br>Business jet operators, like airlines, have actually bowed to ecological pressure on aviation and dedicated to cutting in half carbon emissions by 2050 compared to 2005.<br>
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<br>Their hope is that adopting eco-friendly fuel to suppress emissions could make [service](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) jets more attractive to [environmentally mindful](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) buyers - specifically corporations facing questions over sustainability from investors or green project groups.<br>
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<br>The accessibility of less [polluting private](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) jets could likewise spare the abundant and well-known the unfavorable publicity by Britain's Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan over a current personal jet trip to southern France.<br>
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<br>Five [Gulfstream](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) jets on screen in Las Vegas are using California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.<br>
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<br>The most recent waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food market," said Bryan Sherbacow, primary business officer of Boston-based [biofuel](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) manufacturer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste used by Gulfstream.<br>
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<br>"All of our product is inedible."<br>
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<br>Some of the other 79 aircraft on [display](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) are expected to be powered by 150,000 [gallons](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) of other eco-friendly fuel blends anticipated to be pumped at the program.<br>
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<br>FLIGHT SHAMING<br>
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<br>Private jets account for less than 0.1% of overall annual carbon emissions internationally, but can discharge, on average, approximately 20 times more carbon emissions per [passenger](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter firm Victor.<br>
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<br>Prince Harry has actually safeguarded his occasional use of [private jets](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) to guarantee his household's safety, and has stated that on the rare events he does not fly commercially he [offsets](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) his emissions.<br>
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<br>But planemakers say incidents such as the furore over his schedule have actually included fresh difficulties for an [industry](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) already making every effort to justify its contribution to cutting business costs.<br>
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<br>"Incidents of flight shaming including using personal jets are unfortunate when you consider that our industry has actually provided fuel performance enhancements of 40% over the previous 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President [David Coleal](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4).<br>
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<br>Bombardier believes increased sustainable fuel use will assist the industry make inroads with corporations and rich purchasers. According to industry information, billionaires only have a 19% company jet ownership rate.<br>
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<br>But even an image remodeling - with jets sporting stickers like "this aircraft flies on sustainable fuels" and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for visiting planes - is not likely to [satisfy](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) all [critics](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) at the Oct 22-24 high-end jet event.<br>
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<br>Environmentalists and some analysts remain doubtful that biojetfuels, typically blended 50-50 with kerosene, will make a significant effect on [public understandings](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) about luxury travel.<br>
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<br>"No quantity of [jatropha curcas](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) or Brazil-nut fuel can make service jets look eco-friendly," stated air travel analyst Richard [Aboulafia](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053).<br>
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<br>Demand from company jet operators for renewable fuels now far goes beyond supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow stated.<br>
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<br>World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) at its [California](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) plant, might broaden production approximately 150 million gallons by 2022.<br>
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<br>Corporate charter business and experts are also seeing more interest from consumers who wish to buy carbon credits to offset emissions from their flights.<br>
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<br>Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions played a role in a corporate jet utilization study his company recently completed for a Fortune 500 company.<br>
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<br>"At the end of the day, I think that rate, cost per hour, variety, speed and efficiency, that's still the (sales) motorist. But I think people are ending up being more knowledgeable about the sustainability of operations and how it affects the planet." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and [Alexandra](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) Hudson)<br>
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