Add Clean Getaway: Meat Waste Joins Biofuels At Luxury Jet Show
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<br>By [Allison](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) Lampert<br>
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<br>LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's most significant market program in Las Vegas luxury jets are luring buyers with their smooth silhouettes, luxurious cabins - and progressively, their use of alternative fuels.<br>
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<br>Fuel manufacturers and jetmakers are eager to showcase novel types of [air travel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) fuel considered less harmful to the climate, from utilized cooking oil to the noticeably less [attractive meat](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) waste.<br>
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<br>Business jet operators, like airline companies, have acquiesced ecological pressure on air travel and devoted to [cutting](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) in half carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.<br>
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<br>Their hope is that adopting eco-friendly fuel to curb emissions might make organization jets more attractive to ecologically mindful purchasers - especially corporations facing concerns over sustainability from shareholders or green campaign groups.<br>
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<br>The accessibility of less [polluting private](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) jets could also spare the abundant and famous the unfavorable publicity experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan over a recent private jet trip to southern France.<br>
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<br>Five Gulfstream jets on screen in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.<br>
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<br>The newest waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are by-products of the food market," said Bryan Sherbacow, chief commercial officer of Boston-based [biofuel](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) producer 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 screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other renewable fuel blends expected 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 total yearly carbon emissions internationally, but can discharge, typically, up to 20 times more carbon emissions per guest mile than jetliners, according to the London-based personal charter firm Victor.<br>
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<br>Prince Harry has actually safeguarded his occasional usage of private jets to guarantee his family's safety, and has actually stated that on the rare occasions he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.<br>
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<br>But planemakers say events such as the furore over his itinerary have included fresh difficulties for a market currently aiming to justify its contribution to cutting business costs.<br>
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<br>"Incidents of flight shaming including using personal jets are regrettable when you consider that our market has delivered fuel efficiency improvements of 40% over the past 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.<br>
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<br>Bombardier [believes increased](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) [sustainable fuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) usage will assist the market make inroads with [corporations](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) and wealthy purchasers. According to industry information, billionaires just have a 19% [business jet](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) .<br>
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<br>But even an image remodeling - with jets sporting sticker labels like "this aircraft flies on eco-friendly fuels" and organisers including alternative fuel pumps for going to planes - is not likely to please all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.<br>
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<br>Environmentalists and some analysts remain doubtful that biojetfuels, normally blended 50-50 with kerosene, will make a considerable influence on public perceptions about luxury travel.<br>
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<br>"No quantity of [jatropha curcas](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) or Brazil-nut fuel can make service jets look eco-friendly," said air travel [expert Richard](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) Aboulafia.<br>
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<br>Demand from service jet operators for [eco-friendly fuels](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) now far [surpasses](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) supply and their interest might drive future production, [Sherbacow](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) said.<br>
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<br>World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of [biofuel](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) at its California plant, could expand production as much as 150 million gallons by 2022.<br>
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<br>[Corporate charter](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) business and consultants are also seeing more interest from consumers who wish to [purchase carbon](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) credits to balance out [emissions](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) from their [flights](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy).<br>
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<br>Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, [stated emissions](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) played a role in a corporate jet utilization study his company just recently finished for a Fortune 500 business.<br>
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<br>"At the end of the day, I believe that cost, expense per hour, range, speed and performance, that's still the (sales) driver. But I think people are ending up being more mindful of the sustainability of operations and how it impacts the world." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)<br>
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