The first flight by a commercial airline to be powered partly by biofuel is to take off from Heathrow airport.
Billed as a green fuel breakthrough, the Virgin Atlantic flight to Amsterdam will not have any passengers on board.
Earlier this month, Airbus used the world's largest passenger jet, the A380 to flight test another alternative fuel - a synthetic mix of gas-to-liquid. Many environmentalists argue that cultivating biofuel is not sustainable and will lead to reduced land for food.
BBC NEWS | UK | Airline in first biofuel flight
Brilliant.
We grow a lot of bio-fuel here in the Fens. Miscanthus is planted in various places, around the edge of crops providing shelter and on small plots not big enough for food crops. Sometimes a whole field is devoted to it.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/erdp/pdfs/ec...thus-guide.pdf