Airbus successful with biofuel flight

LE BOURGET: An Airbus airliner flew from southern France to the Paris Air Show on Thursday (Friday in Manila) with one fuel tank partially filled with farnesane, a biofuel made from sugar cane as the industry experiments with green technology.

The gambit was to show that the fast-growing air transport sector is eager for clean fuels, but the ability for green fuels to compete with petroleum-based kerosene that spews tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere remains way off.