• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I hope this can continue and expand without outrageous land or water usage or unreasonable costs. I wonder how many times more expensive those SAFs are right now than regular kerosene. And how much lower they can come with economies of scale.

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    11 months ago

    I wonder how did they make a liquid fuel out of tallow, and how many cows does it take to fly from London to NY per one passenger.

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      11 months ago

      They are still burning hydrocarbons, so basically the same.

      This is green washing at its finest.

      • vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world
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        Yes, but where the carbon comes from does matter. Burning fossil fuels is bad because it reintroduces previously sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere. If we can shorten the carbon cycle and simultaneously reduce the total amount of free carbon in the atmosphere, it’s still a net positive, even though we would still be burning hydrocarbons.

        Of course the less we burn, the better, and I’m sure the water resources used to make the “renewable” fuel are just as problematic and wasteful.

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          Burning fossil fuels is bad because it reintroduces previously sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere.

          Switching coal powder plants to burn wood would also shorten the carbon cycle from from millions of years to only decades…

          It is still adding co2 into the atmosphere when we should be removing it.

          Anything that adds more co2 to the atmosphere is not really helping.

          Being stabbed and slowly bleeding out may give you a few more minutes of life than being shot in the head but you are still dead years before you should be.

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            11 months ago

            Burning sustainably grown plants is a net zero carbon addition to the environment. It’s not what you want, but it’s a step in the right direction.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “The world will always assume something can’t be done, until you do it,” said Virgin founder Richard Branson, who was aboard the flight with others including corporate and government officials, engineers and journalists.

    The U.K. Transport Department, which provided 1 million pounds ($1.27 million) to plan and operate the flight, called the test a “huge step towards jet zero” to make air travel more environmentally friendly, though large hurdles remain in making the fuel widely available.

    While governments have long talked about decarbonizing air travel, the transition has been moving at the pace of a dirigible.

    It was also a drop in the bucket compared to the goal of producing 1 billion gallons a year set in 2018 by the Federal Aviation Administration.

    Gulfstream Aerospace was the first to make the crossing earlier this month with a business jet powered only by the eco-fuel.

    Air France-KLM flew from Paris to Montreal two years ago using a mix of petroleum-based jet fuel and a synthetic derived from waste cooking oils.


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