British Airways wants to fly with fuel from garbage as early as 2017
Remember that scene from back to the future in which the scientist Doc Brown picks up a certain amount of trash and uses it as fuel for his DeLorean (see below)? British Airways is to copy this model of fuel, a project developed in conjunction with the Solena Fuels and that uses municipal solid waste â€" waste â€" to create 50 thousand metric tons of fuel per year.If all goes as planned, this will be the first time that the garbage will be transformed into fuel-on top in one of the industries that desperately seeks more clean energy to create fuel.According to Treehugger, Selena uses the Fischer-Tropsch process to develop the fuel and to invest a total of rose million (US $ 1.3 billion) in its technology.After the trash cleaning and to be removed the toxic and recyclable materials, it will be combustado in an environment with little oxygen, which produces a synthesis of hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide, a process known as gasification."After that we will have a pretty neat fuel, of great quality," explained Jonathan Counsell, head of sustainability of British Airways. The responsible who spoke on advanced biofuels Leadership Conference, explained that turn waste into fuel is two times more efficient than the incineration of waste to electricity.On the other hand, this new fuel reduces emissions of greenhouse gases up to 95%, compared with fossil fuels. And this figure does not include emissions of methane-a gas 30 times more damaging to global warming than carbon dioxide â€" which result from the decomposition of waste in landfills.If everything goes on schedule, British Airways will start flying with developed fuel from garbage as early as 2017. Sounds like science fiction, but there's a lot that the aviation industry needed a news like this. We hope, nevertheless, that this technology is not an incentive for creating more trash, instead of continuing to fight for his inevitable reduction.Foto: simonallardice/Creative Commons
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