Steel emissions could power low-carbon flight, claims Virgin Atlantic

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Airline develops world's first jet fuel made with waste industrial gases from steel mills

Commercial airliners could soon be criss-crossing the skies powered by jet fuel made from waste gases from steel mills, thanks to a scientific breakthrough by low-carbon fuel specialists LanzaTech and...

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