UK: Port Talbot steelworks' waste gases could power flights

Passengers could soon be flying on planes fuelled by waste gases from steelworks. The plan involves using the gases from Tata's Port Talbot plant, which developers believe could be used for thousands of flights a year. Tata, along with Neath Port Talbot council and American bioengineering firm LanzaTech are working on the plan. Waste gases are an unavoidable part of the industrial production of steel and it is thought it could generate 30m gallons of biofuel for the aviation industry every year. "We certainly have an ambitious agenda with this strategy and heavy industry has to be a part of that," said Neath Port Talbot council's deputy leader Anthony Taylor. Virgin Atlantic worked with LanzaTech last year to fly from Orlando to London powered by recycled carbon jet fuel. <br/>