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EU Plans to Boost Green Aviation & Shipping Fuels, But Sends Worrying Signal on 2040 Climate Goal - CleanTechnica

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Can aviation be green? Except by not existing?

green aviation
What are they burning then?
- I don't think that's set in stone. The new gonservätïve commission is rather focused on not being too firm or too prescriptive, on the mistaken theory that that gives better results than doing proper research in finding the best approaches before handing out money.
  The choices are probably still the usual:
  batteries and "clean" hydrogen for the short range
  SAF (sustainable aviation fuel), i.e. kerosene analogs that are either plant-/animal-/waste-based or are e-fuels created from captured carbon and "clean" hydrogen
- Weed
  
  So there will finally be some substance to the conspiracy theories about contrails being spiked with chemicals that make you a little funny in the head...
  
  It'll get you sky high that's for sure
- Good question. I did the math once. Assuming the best possible parameters, for getting all the aviation fuel out of renewable resources, we would have to turn every piece of agricultural land - gardens, fields, orchards, forests, winyards, meadows - in our country into perpetual rapeseed fields. And would still have to import stuff.
  
  And carbon from plants is still fucking carbon.

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