Virgin Atlantic is looking into the potential of making air travel significantly less detrimental to the environment.
Virgin and LanzaTech announced that they had produced an initial 1,500-gallons of Lanzanol (a low carbon jet fuel) in China, and the companies said that flight trials could start as early as next year.
In a statement , Virgin founder Richard Branson called the achievement:
[It’s] a real game changer for aviation and could significantly reduce the industry’s reliance on oil within our lifetime. Virgin Atlantic was the first commercial airline to test a bio-fuel flight and continues to be a leader in sustainable aviation.
The low-carbon fuel is produced with carbon monoxide waste from steel production. According to a press release, LanzaTech captures carbon from the wasted gas at steel mills by fermenting it into ethanol. The ethanol can then be used turned into aviation fuel. The company says that waste “would otherwise release into the atmosphere.”
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The goal is to eventually be able to use the fuel on commercial flights. LanzaTech is predicting this process could produce as many as 15 billion gallons of jet fuel per year, which represents about one-fifth of the airline industry’s fuel needs.
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