Qantas uses mustard seeds in first ever biofuel flight between Australia and US
by Naaman Zhou from Environment | The Guardian on (#3EM3J)
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A Qantas plane powered partly by mustard seeds has become the world's first biofuel flight between Australia and the United States, after landing in Melbourne on Tuesday.
The 15-hour flight used a blended fuel that was 10% derived from the brassica carinata, an industrial type of mustard seed that functions as a fallow crop - meaning it can be grown by farmers in between regular crop cycles.
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