{"id":2186,"date":"2008-02-25T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2008-02-25T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T23:20:26","slug":"virgins-coconut-powered-747-completes-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/02\/virgins-coconut-powered-747-completes-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin&#8217;s coconut-powered 747 completes first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/241144194\/\" >Virgin&#8217;s coconut-powered 747 completes first flight<\/a>:<br \/>\nFinally, mankind has the answer to that eternal question, how many coconuts does it take to go from London to Amsterdam? The answer: 150,000 &#8212; converted into biofuel and poured into a special 747, of course. Virgin Atlantic completed its first biofuel tests yesterday with solid results, using a mix of 20 percent coconut oil and 80 percent jet fuel to power a 747 &#8212; a first for the airline industry. There&#8217;s still a long way to go, of course &#8212; only one of the jet&#8217;s four tanks carried the alternative fuel, and even Richard Branson admits that giant coconut plantations devoted to airline fuel probably aren&#8217;t workable &#8212; but despite harsh criticism from skeptics, it&#8217;s still an impressive achievement. Branson says that although this test didn&#8217;t use a viable fuel, it&#8217;s a landmark proof-of-concept &#8212; and that next-generation biofuels made from algae may one day power all our aircraft. Sure, that&#8217;d be nice, but we&#8217;ll stick with tiki-power &#8212; anyone have a drink umbrella?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2-25-08-branson.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-2186];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2-25-08-branson.jpg','popup','width=419,height=224,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2-25-08-branson-tm.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"411\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2-25-08-Branson\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin&#8217;s coconut-powered 747 completes first flight: Finally, mankind has the answer to that eternal question, how many coconuts does it take to go from London to Amsterdam? The answer: 150,000 &#8212; converted into biofuel and poured into a special 747, of course. Virgin Atlantic completed its first biofuel tests yesterday with solid results, using a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/02\/virgins-coconut-powered-747-completes-first-flight\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virgin&#8217;s coconut-powered 747 completes first flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-zg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}