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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 biggest industry show in Las Vegas luxury jets are luring purchasers with their smooth shapes, plush cabins – and progressively, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel manufacturers and jetmakers are keen to display unique types of aviation fuel considered less harmful to the environment, from used cooking oil to the distinctly less glamorous meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have acquiesced environmental pressure on air travel and committed to halving carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.

Their hope is that adopting sustainable fuel to curb emissions could make company jets more appealing to environmentally mindful purchasers – particularly corporations facing questions over sustainability from investors or green campaign groups.

The availability of less contaminating personal jets might also spare the rich and well-known the negative promotion experienced by Britain’s Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a recent personal jet journey to southern France.

Five Gulfstream jets on screen in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.

The latest waste-based fuels consist of “fats, grease and oils that are by-products of the food market,” said Bryan Sherbacow, chief business officer of Boston-based biofuel producer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste used by Gulfstream.

“All of our product is inedible.”

Some of the other 79 airplane on display screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other renewable fuel blends expected to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets account for less than 0.1% of total annual carbon emissions worldwide, but can give off, on average, up to 20 times more carbon emissions per passenger mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter firm Victor.

Prince Harry has actually protected his occasional use of private jets to ensure his family’s safety, and has actually stated that on the uncommon celebrations he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers state events such as the furore over his itinerary have actually included fresh obstacles for a market already striving to justify its contribution to cutting business costs.

“Incidents of flight shaming including the use of private jets are unfortunate when you consider that our industry has delivered fuel performance enhancements of 40% over the past 40 years,” said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier thinks increased sustainable fuel usage will help the industry make inroads with corporations and wealthy purchasers. According to industry information, billionaires only have a 19% company jet ownership rate.

But even an image transformation – with jets sporting stickers like “this airplane flies on eco-friendly fuels” and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for checking out planes – is unlikely to please all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet event.

Environmentalists and some experts stay skeptical that biojetfuels, normally blended 50-50 with kerosene, will make a significant effect on public understandings about luxury travel.

“No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make organization jets look eco-friendly,” said aviation expert Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from service jet operators for sustainable fuels now far surpasses supply and their interest might drive future production, Sherbacow stated.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, could expand production as much as 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter business and experts are also seeing more interest from clients who want to buy carbon credits to offset emissions from their .

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions played a function in a corporate jet utilization research study his business just recently completed for a Fortune 500 company.

“At the end of the day, I think that price, expense per hour, variety, speed and performance, that’s still the (sales) motorist. But I think 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)

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