Qantas uses mustard seeds in first ever biofuel flight between Australia and US

The 15-hour flight used a blended fuel that was 10% derived from the brassica carinata, an industrial type of mustard seed that functions as a fallow crop – meaning it can be grown by farmers in between regular crop cycles.  Compared pound for pound with jet fuel, carinata biofuel reduces emissions by 80% over the fuel’s life cycle. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/30/qantas-uses-mustard-seeds-in-first-ever-biofuel-flight-between-australia-and-us
Article courtesy of The Guardian by Naaman Zhou