Add Clean Getaway: Meat Waste Joins Biofuels At Luxury Jet Show
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<br>By Allison Lampert<br>
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<br>LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's greatest market program in Las Vegas high-end jets are drawing buyers with their smooth silhouettes, luxurious cabins - and significantly, their usage of alternative fuels.<br>
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<br>Fuel producers and jetmakers are keen to [display unique](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) types of air travel fuel considered less harmful to the environment, from utilized cooking oil to the definitely less attractive meat waste.<br>
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<br>Business jet operators, like airline companies, have actually bowed to environmental pressure on aviation and committed to cutting in half carbon [emissions](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) by 2050 compared with 2005.<br>
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<br>Their hope is that adopting renewable fuel to suppress emissions might make business jets more appealing to environmentally conscious purchasers - particularly corporations dealing with questions over sustainability from shareholders or green campaign groups.<br>
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<br>The availability of less polluting private jets might likewise spare the abundant and famous the [negative publicity](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a current private jet journey to southern France.<br>
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<br>Five Gulfstream jets on display screen in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.<br>
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<br>The most recent waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are by-products of the food industry," said Bryan Sherbacow, primary business officer of Boston-based [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) producer World Energy, which [produces fuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) from meat waste used by Gulfstream.<br>
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<br>"All of our item is inedible."<br>
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<br>A few of the other 79 airplane on screen are expected to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other [sustainable fuel](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) mixes anticipated to be pumped at the show.<br>
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<br>FLIGHT SHAMING<br>
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<br>Private jets represent less than 0.1% of overall yearly carbon emissions globally, but can give off, typically, up to 20 times more carbon emissions per traveler mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter company Victor.<br>
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<br>Prince Harry has actually defended his occasional usage of [personal jets](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) to guarantee his household's safety, and has said that on the [unusual occasions](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) 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 schedule have actually [included fresh](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) for a market already making every effort to validate its contribution to [cutting corporate](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) costs.<br>
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<br>"Incidents of flight shaming involving making use of personal jets are regrettable when you consider that our market has provided fuel effectiveness improvements of 40% over the previous 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.<br>
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<br>Bombardier thinks increased sustainable fuel use will assist the [industry](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) make inroads with corporations and [wealthy buyers](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US). According to [industry](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) information, billionaires just have a 19% company jet ownership rate.<br>
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<br>But even an image makeover - with jets sporting stickers like "this airplane flies on sustainable fuels" and organisers [adding alternative](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) [fuel pumps](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) for visiting airplanes - is unlikely to [satisfy](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.<br>
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<br>Environmentalists and some experts stay skeptical that biojetfuels, generally combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a considerable effect on public perceptions about high-end travel.<br>
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<br>"No quantity of [Jatropha](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) or Brazil-nut fuel can make organization jets look eco-friendly," said aviation [analyst Richard](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) Aboulafia.<br>
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<br>Demand from organization jet operators for eco-friendly fuels now far goes beyond supply and their interest might drive future production, Sherbacow said.<br>
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<br>World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of [biofuel](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) at its California plant, might [broaden production](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) as much as 150 million gallons by 2022.<br>
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<br>Corporate charter companies and specialists are likewise seeing more interest from consumers who wish to buy carbon credits to balance out emissions from their [flights](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053).<br>
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<br>Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, said emissions contributed in a business jet usage research study his company just recently finished for a Fortune 500 business.<br>
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<br>"At the end of the day, I think that cost, expense per hour, range, speed and efficiency, that's still the (sales) motorist. But I believe individuals are becoming more knowledgeable about 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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