In an approach or "environmentally concerned" more to reduce carbon flights, Lufthansa Airlines has announced that they starting commercial biofuel flights daily between Hamburg and Frankfurt in a six-month trial from April 2011. The movement to operate an aircraft engine with biofuel on a long stretch of six months, is the first of its kind in the world.
Security issues in energy, increase in gasoline prices and climate change from greenhouse gases emitted by aircraft have been worrying the airline industry for quite some time. Virgin Atlantic Airlines, British Airways and Continental Airline must already they have been tested on flights of biofuels in the past two years. However, environmentalists have consistently been warning that the production of biofuels may also have adverse effects on the environment.
Biofuels in flight operations can save about 1,500 tons (15,00,000 kg) of carbon dioxide emissions. However, as the worldwide airline industry is asking for an alternative source of energy, there is a need to search engine aircraft in a long term sustainability of biofuels against fossil fuels and its effect. Moreover, environmental concerns are another big problem related to the production of biofuels.
According to a United Nations food and Agricultural Organization report, biofuel plantations are destroying the ecosystem from various regions of the world. Palm, created for the production of biofuel in Indonesia and Malaysia, oil plantations have led to deforestation, resulting in more consequent greenhouse gas emissions worse.
In that situation, a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner with the environment to produce biofuels is the need of the hour.
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