Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Virgin'
Can Branson save Aviation?
Nice piece by Amy Ziff over on the Huffington Post about Virgin's biofuel powered flight recently. I can't help wondering if we'd be better off using waste materials for fuel, than edible nuts, even if their market is in the...
Many things have happened since I went on holiday
Many things have happened since I went on holiday... the most momentous is Richard Branson fuelling an aero engine plane with a combination of coconut and Babassu nut fuel and using it on a747 with three conventionally fueled engines to...
Virgin to trial biofuel in transatlantic 747 flight:
Virgin Atlantic has been flying from London Heathrow to Schipol Airport, the Netherlands, in a series of trial flights, according to 24 oranges, a Dutch blog in English. Gina Cobb is neither insightful or offering a very useful perspective on...
Virgin Atlantic sets early 2008 for jet biofuel debut
Richard Branson set early 2008 as a time for Virgin Atlantic, his airline to trial biofuel in a Boeing 747 flight at a meeting of Mortgage Bankers (its got to be more interesting talking about biofuels than mortages, Dickie*, but...
Branson and Kholsa in celeb bioufel link up
Over on Scalarparty, it seems Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Biofuels will be working together to develop biofuels with Gevo of California. Vindod Kohsla is linked to Gevo in that post. Secondly, Gevo Biofuels has a new CEO who's come from...
More on modifying locomotive diesel engines for biofuels
There's more on modifying locomotive diesel engines for biofuels from Steve, the PR man at Cummins in the UK. He says: It is true, the engines used in the Virgin Voyagers are Cummins QSK19 750hp engines. Their horizontal configuration is...
Just how much modification do trains need to run biodiesel
Just how much modification do trains need to run biodiesel? I asked the question over on the US Biodiesel and SVO forum yesterday in the light of the new Virgin 20% Biodiesel powered train..... Suzy suggests: I'd hazard a guess...
Virgin looks to railroad biofuels
Virgin, run by Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur extraordinaire who recently announced plans to invest around $3bn in biofuels over the next 10 years. hopes that invoking biofuels will help him win an advantage over the competition from other applicants for...
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