AIRPORTS INNOVATE WORLDWIDE TO REDUCE THEIR ENERGY CONSUMPTION
April 1st, 2009
BY MARK ROWE
THE DEBATE over alternative sources of energy for aviation has not been confined to aircraft. The issue has airport managers pondering how such fuels would be used on the ground and at the same to seek to reduce the carbon footprints of their own 'mini-cities'.
Whatever commercial alternatives to kerosene emerge, they are likely to work as 'drop-in' fuels, meaning that it meets the precise technical and operational specifications with which jet engines have been designed to work; and could simply replace kerosene in the supply, storage and ...
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