Recycled Cooking Oil Fuels Finnair to New York
Switching to a more sustainable fuel source can slash an airline's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tue, 23 September, 2014
Finland’s
national carrier Finnair is operating its flight from Helsinki to New
York today with an Airbus A330 using environmentally sustainable biofuel
to coincide with the UN Climate Summit in New York.
The biofuel mixture powering the flight to
New York, provided by SkyNRG Nordic - a joint venture between SkyNRG
and Statoil Aviation - is partly manufactured from cooking oil recycled
from restaurants.
Aviation biofuel is a proven and
exhaustively tested technology but at more than twice the price of
conventionally produced jet fuel, it is not yet economically viable for
any airline to operate with exclusively.
— The UN Climate Summit is an
important gathering to fight climate change, and we wanted to take this
opportunity to highlight the climate benefits of more widespread
adoption of environmentally sustainable biofuels in aviation, says
Finnair's Vice President of Sustainable Development Kati Ihamäki.
Air traffic contributes two per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
— If the price of oil rises
and biofuels become cheaper, there will hopefully be a day when we'll be
able to replace at least some of the fossil fuels with fuels made of
renewable and waste materials, says Finland's Minister for International
Development Pekka Haavisto.
Most of an airline's environmental impact
arises from aircraft emissions during flight, and switching to a more
sustainable fuel source can reduce net carbon dioxide emissions by
between 50 and 80 per cent.
Finnair, which first flew with biofuel in
2011, insists on the cultivation of biofuel sources that neither compete
with food production nor damage biodiversity.
Along with its partners, Finnair is also investigating the possibility of establishing a biofuel hub at Helsinki Airport.
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