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Jet fuel from sugarcane? It's not a flight of fancy

  • Written by Deepak Kumar, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageA medium-size passenger jet burns roughly 750 gallons of fuel per hour.www.shutterstock.com

The aviation industry produces 2 percent of global human-induced carbon dioxide emissions. This share may seem relatively small – for perspective, electricity generation and home heating account for more than 40 percent – but aviation is one of...

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