Tobacco used in fight against pollution

Boeing and the state-owned South African Airways have agreed to co-operate in producing jet fuel from a new type of tobacco plant, with the aim of reducing environmental pollution, according to a story by Eduard Gismatullin for Bloomberg News.

The partners will use SkyNRG’s hybrid plant Solaris, which can be grown as an energy crop, the companies were quoted as saying.

Initially, the oil from the plant’s seeds will be refined into the fuel, though it is expected that as extraction technology improves the rest of the plant will be used also.

The full story is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/boeing-and-south-african-airways-to-fly-planes-on-tobacco-fuel.html.