Flights from NY airport fueled by cooking oil

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Flights from NY airport to Amsterdam fueled by leftover Louisiana cooking oil

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana's Cajun food.

The KLM flights from Kennedy Airport are powered by a combination of 25 percent recycled cooking oil and 75 percent jet fuel.

After the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.

KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told the New York Post (Cooking oil from Louisiana restaurants powering JFK-to-Amsterdam flights - NYPOST.com) that "it smelled like fries" while the plane was being fueled.

The waste oil from frying up crawfish, cracklins and other Cajun specialties is refined at a Louisiana plant, then trucked to JFK.

KLM says the cooking oil reduces polluting carbon emissions up to 80 percent.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana's Cajun food.

The KLM flights from Kennedy Airport are powered by a combination of 25 percent recycled cooking oil and 75 percent jet fuel.

After the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.

KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told the New York Post (Cooking oil from Louisiana restaurants powering JFK-to-Amsterdam flights - NYPOST.com) that "it smelled like fries" while the plane was being fueled.

The waste oil from frying up crawfish, cracklins and other Cajun specialties is refined at a Louisiana plant, then trucked to JFK.

KLM says the cooking oil reduces polluting carbon emissions up to 80 percent.
 
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Not surprised!

Kerosene, Diesel, Jet fuel, used cooking oil all are pretty much similar in specific energy properties.
 
I'm not sure if I feel safe flying in a plane with a pending engine plane failure due a piece of french fry or seasoning causing scoring of the piston . I don't care how much you screen/filter it unless its been run through a centrifuge.
 
I found out that if I used jet fuel in my truck, I won't have to worry about them when outside temps falls 50 degrees below. Makes sense, because when plane is in the air, their temp usually around -40 degrees, can't have jet fuel freezes while up in the air. Regular Diesel, I'm not sure what their freezing point but I think around zero degrees. Only problem with jet fuel in my truck is... it costs too much. LOL
 
I'm not sure if I feel safe flying in a plane with a pending engine plane failure due a piece of french fry or seasoning causing scoring of the piston . I don't care how much you screen/filter it unless its been run through a centrifuge.

I'm sure if it passes FAA, then it's pretty much good enough since FAA regulation is quite stringent.
 
ive heard of this some 10 years ago, in an article (dunno what it was or where now), saying in pending oil crash, that airlines would soon resort to burning bio-fuels, including cooking oils...
and...
its already HAPPENING...
just wow...

hope the oil crash isn't REAL...
because if it is..
it's gonna be BAD
 
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