The airline declined to identify the source of the biofuel, though Paul Charles, a Virgin spokesman, said the carrier had rejected fuels derived from crops like palm oil because of the huge land area that would need to be devoted to cultivation for fuel production.
Mr. Thies said he thought the land should be devoted to housing or open space, which, he said, the neighborhood badly needs.
Fully 50% of the reclaimed land area will be devoted to green and public area, presumably free of the ubiquitous motorbike.
Take the size of your available space and the size of the plot of land that should be devoted to a certain plant into consideration.
It is produced on no more land than was devoted to it a century ago, and with far greater variety and abundance than ever before in history.
Another 30,000 hectares recently seized from the Saudi investor Prince Waleed bin Talal after it was determined that he had bought the land below market prices will be devoted to growing wheat, further increasing the number of hectares in production.
According to the report, 1.7 billion head of livestock currently occupy more than one-fourth of the land on Earth, and one-third of the Earth's arable land is devoted to crops used to feed these herds.
Outside of the Ruhr, much of the state's land is devoted to commercial farms, gardens, or orchards.
Instead of replacing people with metal, they have given the job to monkeys.In some Thai villages up to 10% of the land is devoted to growing coconut trees, which are harvested every month and produce up to 70 nuts a year.
"We were taught that our lives must be devoted to reclaiming our land".
About one third of the land area is devoted to agriculture and one fourth to forestry and timber production.
