Saving the world: but first, raising money

摘要

A Virgin Atlantic flight from Orlando to London this month used a batch of special jet fuel recycled from waste gases for the first time, in a landmark step for a new firm trying to tackle climate change - and, crucially, make money and scale up. The jet fuel was produced by lanzatech, a company founded in New Zealand in 2005 and now headquartered near Chicago, whose modern day alchemy turns unwanted carbon monoxide into valuable ethanol.