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Boeing consortium to start field trials on biofuel

They recorded progress in making aviation biofuel from desert plants fed with seawater

Published Thu, Jan 23, 2014 · 10:00 PM
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[PARIS] Aerospace giant Boeing and its research partners in the Middle East said on Wednesday that they would start field trials after recording progress in making biofuel from desert plants fed with seawater.

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium, affiliated with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, will plant two hectares of the saltwater-tolerant plants called halophytes in the r…

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