• @riodoro1
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    415 hours ago

    green aviation

    What are they burning then?

    • federal reverseM
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      15 hours ago

      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
    • @Treczoks
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      15 hours ago

      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.

      • @riodoro1
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        112 hours ago

        And carbon from plants is still fucking carbon.

        • @Treczoks
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          112 hours ago

          But according to those who make politicians make the law, it’s the good carbon.