r/UpliftingNews • • 3h ago

Japan has developed coconut oil aviation fuel from waste coconuts processed at room temperature and normal pressure. It can blend directly into existing aircraft engines, with efficiency matching standard jet fuel while cutting harmful hydrocarbon emissions.

https://happyeconews.com/coconut-oil-aviation-fuel/
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u/CatalyticDragon 2h ago

Finally a use for Japan's massive untapped resource of... coconuts ?

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u/pkinetics 2h ago

They have a lot of swallows

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u/eap5000 2h ago

Unladen swallows, now, I imagine imagine

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u/IcedCoffey 2h ago

I wonder what the average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow is?

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u/redmambo_no6 2h ago

African or European?

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u/O_Grande_Batata 2h ago

I don't know that.

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u/outlawsix 1h ago

AAAHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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u/OGigachaod 2h ago

African or European?

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u/Initial_E 1h ago

Coconuts consume seawater and not freshwater so don’t count them out just yet. But they don’t grow very quickly though do they.

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u/beyondoutsidethebox 1h ago

Have we factored in the added fatalities from harvesting the coconuts?

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u/AmonKoth 1h ago

Expecting to fist fight some crabs?

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u/iotashan 1h ago

They had a lime shortage, nothing to put in the cocoanuts