In this weeks aviation week and space technology there is a story
"Muck to money" by Graham Warwick Washington .
Its all about turning trash into Jet Fuel .
They are going to take trash from London
run it through a 500 million dollar plant and turn the trash into fuel .
The plant will take in 565,000 metric tons per year and produce 50,000 tons of jet fuel, 50,000 tons of diesel, 20,000 tons of naphtha and 50 megawatts of electrical power.
The plant
will be built at an existing Anglian Water plant in Tilbury, in east London, for commissioning in 2016.
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Lufthansa turns to algae and municipal solid waste in quest for new sources of sustainable jet biofuel
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