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- Arkona offshore wind farm with a capacity of 385 MW, a joint venture between Norway's Equinor and Germany's Eon, in the Baltic Sea was officially opened. (more)
 
- Worknesh Degefa of Ethiopia won the women's race at the 123rd Boston Marathon in the USA in 2 hours 23 minutes 31 seconds. (more)
- Burmese reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo representing Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category. (more)
- Israeli scientists from the Tel Aviv University have printed the world's first 3D heart from human tissue. (more)
- The World Bank honored His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Amir of the State of Kuwait, for his exemplary role in supporting social development. (more)
- American aerospace company Stratolaunch Systems Corporation successfully completed the first flight of the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, the Stratolaunch. (more)
- Kenyan runners Nancy Kiprop and Vincent Kipchumba won the women’s and men’s race respectively at the 2019 Vienna Marathon in Austria. (more)
- Chinese paleontologists have discovered a trove of well-preserved fossils from 518 million years ago on a bank of the Danshui River. (more)
- For the first time, a team of astronomers, including Professor Heino Falcke of the Netherlands, have managed to take a photo of a supermassive black hole. (more)
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Bright Skies for Plant-Based Jet Fuels
Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers demonstrate that jet fuels made from plants could be cost competitive with conventional fossil fuels.
With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than 5 million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost entirely reliant on petroleum-based fuels. Unlike other energy sectors such as ground transportation or residential and commercial buildings, the aviation industry can’t be easily shifted to renewable energy sources using existing technologies.
However, a new analysis by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that sustainable plant-based bio-jet fuels could provide a competitive alternative to conventional petroleum fuels if current development and scale-up initiatives continue to push ahead successfully. (More)
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