{"id":5901,"date":"2011-07-15T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2011-07-19T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T09:09:04","slug":"not-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/07\/15\/not-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone cheering Lufthansa biofuel test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/sci-tech\/20110715-36317.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5904\" title=\"110719_luft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/110719_luft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Lufthansa is testing biosynthetic fuels on Airbus A321 flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt and, if the trial is successful, hopes to expand use of the fuel across its fleet. The airline aims to reduce carbon dioxide (C02) emissions fleet-wide,  although some environmentalists are sceptical. A few showed up at the  Hamburg airport to protest. \u201cThe use of biofuel in the aviation sector to reduce CO2 emissions is an  ecological sham,\u201d said Werner Reh, of Friends of the Earth Germany  (BUND). In a statement, Reh complained that plans such as Lufthansa\u2019s will just  result in the mass expansion of crop cultivation necessary to create the  biofuel mixture, leading to \u201cworldwide destruction of forests, loss of  biodiversity and competition for food.\u201d Biofuels have come under major criticism because mass cultivation in the  developing world takes up space other plants and animals could be using  or where food could be grown. Also, shorter flights are worse for the  environment than taking the train. Lufthansa said the aircraft will fly the route four times per day over  the next six months. Scientific data will be compiled and technicians  will examine effects of the half-biofuel and half-normal jet fuel  mixture on the plane\u2019s engine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/sci-tech\/20110715-36317.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Germany | Company: Lufthansa | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/sci-tech\/20110715-36317.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Local<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa is testing biosynthetic fuels on Airbus A321 flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt and, if the trial is successful, hopes to expand use of the fuel across its fleet. The airline aims to reduce carbon dioxide (C02) emissions fleet-wide, although some environmentalists are sceptical. A few showed up at the Hamburg airport to protest. \u201cThe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}