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
It’ll get you sky high that’s for sure
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…
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.
But according to those who make politicians make the law, it’s the good carbon.
Can aviation be green? Except by not existing?
