It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s biojet!
Biodiesel may not become the airplane fuel of the future but it did prove effective enough to recently power a 1968 L-29 Czechoslovakian jet—dubbed BioJet 1—up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes. A three minute, 15-second test the day before was the world’s first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil.
via tmbo – Whammo


December 3rd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
It seems to me that fossil fuel is a lot more plentiful than biofuel. I don’t get all the hype over used-grease-powered vehicles.
MP — both the login and password recovery are being inhibited by an HTTP Auth prompt, which doesn’t seem to know me or have much to do with the cookie login you’ve always had.