United Airlines flew the first U.S. commercial passengers Monday on a Boeing 737-824 powered partly with Honeywell biofuel made from algae, a Honeywell subsidiary announced...On Wednesday, Alaska Airlines plans two biofuel-powered passenger flights from Seattle, Wash... "What we have is an evolving product," Jim Rekoske, the company's vice president and general manager for renewable energy and chemicals, says in an interview. "This is kind of a boutique fuel" now that costs about four times that of regular jet fuel, he says, because it's not yet widely available. He expects that will change as companies secure funding to build plants to produce it on a massive scale. Read more and comment at: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/11/united-flies-...
