Virgin's Boeing 747 (IMAGE)

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Virgin's Boeing 747

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Virgin Atlantic will fly the first commercial flight on recycled waste gas from a steel mill. LanzaTech first converted the gas to ethanol and then using technology developed by PNNL upgrade the ethanol to fuel that has been approved for commercial aviation -- an alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene.

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