Cooking oil powers planes!

March 12, 2013 09:51
Cooking oil powers planes!

Yes, a Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana's Cajun food.

In fact, the KLM flights from Kennedy Airport are powered by a combination of 25 per cent recycled cooking oil and 75 per cent jet fuel and that after the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.

It seems KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told that while the plane was being fuelled"it smelled like fries".

It seems that the cooking oil is safe for powering jumbo jets and indeed provides exactly the same flying experience. Even better, it reduces carbon emissions by up to 80%.

What could be better than this?

(AW:Samrat Biswas)

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