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Aviation Biofuels: More Hype Than Hope? 
Wired News | by Dave Demerjian | Thu, Jan 15
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Petroleum Week estimates that producing that much fuel from jatropha, one of the more promising bio-fuel prospects, would require planting 1.4 million square kilometers of it, an area twice the size of France. And that's bad news for governments who see alternative fuels as a way to tell M...
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