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By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's greatest market show in Las Vegas luxury jets are luring buyers with their smooth silhouettes, plush cabins - and significantly, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel producers and jetmakers are eager to showcase novel kinds of air travel fuel considered less harmful to the environment, from used cooking oil to the definitely less attractive meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have actually bowed to ecological pressure on air travel and devoted to halving carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.

Their hope is that embracing renewable fuel to curb emissions could make service jets more appealing to environmentally mindful purchasers - specifically corporations dealing with concerns over sustainability from investors or green campaign groups.

The accessibility of less polluting personal jets might likewise spare the abundant and well-known the unfavorable promotion experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan over a recent private jet journey to southern France.

Five Gulfstream jets on screen in Las Vegas are using California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.

The latest waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food market," said Bryan Sherbacow, primary industrial officer of Boston-based biofuel producer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste used by Gulfstream.

"All of our product is inedible."

A few of the other 79 aircraft on display screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other eco-friendly fuel blends anticipated to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets represent less than 0.1% of total annual carbon emissions internationally, but can give off, usually, approximately 20 times more carbon emissions per guest mile than jetliners, according to the London-based personal charter company Victor.

Prince Harry has protected his occasional use of private jets to guarantee his household's security, and has stated that on the unusual occasions he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers say occurrences such as the furore over his schedule have actually added fresh difficulties for a market currently making every effort to justify its contribution to cutting business expenses.

"Incidents of flight shaming including using personal jets are unfortunate when you think about that our market has delivered fuel performance enhancements of 40% over the previous 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier believes increased sustainable fuel use will help the market make with corporations and wealthy buyers. According to industry information, billionaires only have a 19% organization jet ownership rate.

But even an image makeover - with jets sporting stickers like "this aircraft flies on renewable fuels" and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for going to aircrafts - is unlikely to satisfy all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.

Environmentalists and some experts remain hesitant that biojetfuels, generally combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a substantial influence on public understandings about luxury travel.

"No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make service jets look eco-friendly," said air travel expert Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from company jet operators for renewable fuels now far exceeds supply and their interest might drive future production, Sherbacow said.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, might broaden production as much as 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter companies and consultants are also seeing more interest from consumers who wish to purchase carbon credits to balance out emissions from their flights.

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions contributed in a corporate jet utilization research study his business recently completed for a Fortune 500 company.

"At the end of the day, I believe that price, cost per hour, variety, speed and efficiency, that's still the (sales) motorist. But I believe people are becoming more conscious of the sustainability of operations and how it affects the world." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)