Aviation

By analyzing the contrails created by planes running on a biofuel mix, NASA has found that biofuels can cut particle emissions by 70 percent. The benefits come not just from reducing carbon emissions but by also cutting down the chance of contrails forming, which have a bigger impact on the climate.

A discovery by the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SRBC) that desert plants fed by seawater produce biofuel more efficiently than other well-known feedstocks could help alleviate concerns surrounding the use of valuable arable land for such purposes.

Every 12 hours, weather balloons are launched from about 70 locations across the US. A lot can change between those intervals and those locations, however. That's why a new project is using Southwest Airlines jets as airborne weather sensors.

OriginOil and Algasol, two companies working to develop algae into renewable fuel, have announced a collaboration on growth and harvest technology.

After many delays Airbus Military’s all-new A400M four-engine turboprop military transport, designed as a replacement for the C-130 Hercules and Transall C-160, has taken to the air for the first time in the skies above Seville, Spain.

QinetiQ and Vestas have created stealth technology for wind turbines which make them virtually invisible to radar