Continental Airlines bekeng e tlang e ka ba sefofane sa pele sa US ho bonts'a lifofane tsa baeti li ka fofa ka motsoako o khethehileng oa algae, jatropha lehola le jet fuel.
Pejana bekeng ena, Air New Zealand e atlehile ho etsa liteko tse tšoanang mme hamorao khoeling ena Japan Airlines e rera ho khanna sefofane sa eona sa liteko tsa biofuel.
Tšepo ke hore ts'ebeliso e batsi ea biofuel e tla fokotsa ts'epo ea indasteri ea lifofane ho mafura a tloaelehileng a jet le ho fokotsa khabone.
Jatropha ke semela se sa jeoang se hlahisang peō e nang le oli ea karolo ea 37 lekholong e ka chesoang e le libeso ntle le ho hloekisoa, ho latela Websaete ea Jatropha World.
Sefofane sa Continental se tla tloha Houston ka Laboraro 'me se ke ke sa nka bapalami. Bafofisi ba liteko ba Boeing 737-800 ba sebelisang lienjine tsa CFM International ba tla tsamaisa concoction ka No. 2, kapa enjene e nepahetseng.
Bafofisi ba lifofane ba tla tsamaisa lebelo la ho potlakisa, ho theola lebelo, ho tima enjene ea sefofaneng le ho qala bocha le mekhoa e meng, e tloaelehileng le e 'ngoe, ho latela mopalami oa Houston.
Teko ena ke karolo ya boitlamo ba mopalami ba ho fokotsa tlhahiso ya khabone le ho hlwaya ditharollo tsa nako e telele tsa mafura bakeng sa indasteri, Larry Kellner, modulasetulo le CEO wa Continental, o boletse polelong e lokiseditsweng.
Continental e boletse hore hona joale e chesa lilithara tse ka bang 18 tsa mafura ho fofisa mopalami a le mong lik'hilomithara tse 1,000, e leng karolo ea 35 lekholong e fokotsehileng ho latela tlhahiso ea likhase tse futhumatsang lefatše ho feta ka 1997.
Moeletsi oa lifofane Bob Mann oa RW Mann & Co. o itse mefuta e 'maloa ea mehloli ea mafura e ntse e nahanoa ke bajari ba indasteri.
"Empa ke ts'aba hore khoebo efe kapa efe ea lits'ebetso tsena e kanna ea ba lilemo tse leshome," o boletse joalo.
Teko ya Continental e ntse e etswa mmoho le Boeing, GE Aviation, CFM International, mohlahisi wa theknoloji e hlwekisang UOP, khamphani ya Honeywell, le baabi ba oli Sapphire Energy le Terrasol, tse faneng ka algae le jatropha, ka ho latellana.
CFM ke khoebo e kopanetsoeng ea General Electric le Snecma.
Sefofane sa Japane Airlines, se reriloeng ka la 30 Pherekhong, se kenyelletsa Sustainable Oils, khoebo e kopanetsoeng ea Targeted Growth le khamphani e thehiloeng Houston, Green Earth Fuels.
