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May 8, 2012

Taking a Ride on a Coal-Fueled Plane

Tony Moore, Brisbane Times


AP

Queenslander Peter Bond was a recent conference in Australia where nine research and development companies were all looking offshore to grow the next stage of their business.

Australia's reluctance to take up new technology was behind the room's pessimism, according to the man who is now flying a jet 4000 kilometres across Australia using a fuel that he developed.


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TAGGED: jet fuel, airplane, Marcellus Shale, Australia, coal gasification, Coal

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