Solazyme's Bio-Kerosene Passes Aviation Fuel Test. Posted by Matthew McDermott, Treehugger, September 10, 2008. "There are a number of companies trying to produce a biofuel alternative to petroleum-based aviation fuels, and a number of airlines have made biofuel test flights using various mixtures of biofuels, but none are yet available in commercial quantities. Another [milestone] has been passed on the road to greener aviation... [by] algae-innovator Solazyme [which]... says that its microbial-derived jet fuel has passed the eleven 'most challenging specifications needed to meet the ASTM D1655 standard for Aviation Turbine Fuel'... As the original Scientific American article states, 'don't expect this fuel to be showing up at airports anytime soon.' Solazyme doesn't yet have the infrastructure to produce [it] at the scale needed to make enough of it for airlines, and can't produce it cheaply enough (even with current high prices of conventional aviation fuels)."
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