Aug 10 2010
Mexico is all set to move into top echelons in manufacturing and burning up renewable biofuel as jet fuel. The country is looking for avenues to capitalize on abundant growth of non-edible plants such as salicornia and jatropha that can provide basic material for biofuel. States such as Sonora, Sinaloa, Yucatan, Baja California, Chiapas, and Tamaulipas are already cultivating the plants.
Gilberto Lopez Meyer, Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services Director, said that his country is favorably positioned than other similar countries to produce biofuel that can be utilized in aircrafts. He unveiled the support extended by the Mexican government for such a project as a part of government’s initiative and pledged to save the environment and battle against the ills of climate change and gain financially from such technological introductions. In the meant time Lopez Meyer has taken initiatives to decentralize the body that manages fuel supply for Mexican aviation with the sole aim to make Mexico a prime supplier of jet biofuel to USA by the year 2015. He has scheduled the testing of jet biofuel in aircrafts that do not carry passengers before the end of either 2010 or 2011.
Darrin Morgan, who works in Boeing as director of sustainable biofuel strategy, said though Mexico has entered into jet biofuel development belatedly, the country has positive conditions such as soil, good climate and steady political set up in favor of it and placed in a beneficial position than any other country that is currently involved in such a project.
Source: http://www.aicm.com.mx