The Seeds of Change?

All eyes are on Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls Royce as they launch a joint test flight powered in part by bio-fuels. The Boeing 747 will be fuelled by a 50:50 blend of standard aviation fuel and a synthetic fuel derived from seed oil from the jatropha plant. And before the usual bio-fuels criticisms are levelled, The criteria for sourcing the jatropha oil required that the land was neither forest nor virgin grassland within the previous two decades, and was not suitable for most food crops. We watch developments with interest.