Today’s Solutions: December 18, 2025

Airline develops world’s first jet fuel made with waste industrial gases from steel mills Commercial airliners could soon be criss-crossing the skies powered by jet fuel made from waste gases from steel mills, thanks to a scientific breakthrough by low-carbon fuel specialists LanzaTech and airline Virgin Atlantic. US-based LanzaTech said yesterday it has, for the first time, produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from ‘Lanzanol’, its low-carbon ethanol. The fuel is made using waste industrial…

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