While companies are experimenting with high tech ways to capture CO2 from the air, there's already a very simple, efficient way to do it - growing plants. And aircraft are already flying on renewable fuels made from plant biomass.
Air travel accounts for between three and five percent of the global CO2 emissions and those emissions are growing fast.In response, aviation's industry body has set targets to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050 and airlines are exploring many ways to cut back on the use of fossil fuels. And recently Dutch low-cost carrier Transavia started weighing passengers at Eindhoven airport, in an experiment designed to better calculate the amount of fuel required with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions.
He believes biofuels have the greatest chance of reducing the industry's reliance on conventional fuels.
Hope AND hype. Outrageous!
thunderf00t what do you think?
Hype, hype, hype. Why pull Co2 from the air at 450ppm when it is emitted from some industrial sources at nearly 99% purity (ethanol production, hydrogen production etc.)? Because it’s sexy for investors. Dumb money chasing dumber money.
OMG fly planes to save the planet (Big Air's story to keep afloat)
Hype for the moment
China, today
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