Swiss says it will be first airline to use fuel made from sunlight
Swiss International Air Lines and its parent Lufthansa Group have agreed with synthetic fuel group Synhelion to use its solar aviation fuel, the Swiss airline said on Tuesday.
“This will make SWISS the first airline in the world to use ‘sun-to-liquid’ fuel,” it said in a statement.
The process devised by Synhelion, a spinoff from the Swiss Institute of Technology, uses concentrated sunlight to produce carbon-neutral kerosene, it said.
“Our next-generation carbon-neutral solar kerosene is an economically and ecologically viable substitute for fossil fuels,” Synhelion co-founder and CEO Philipp Furler said.
