cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4426053
While it’s easy to dismiss this as a stunt, history suggests stunts are necessary to shift mindset. This flight alone solves nothing, but it will hopefully move the needle.
Anyways, that’s enough about your Mother-in-law.
I didn’t know the Northern Midwest had its own airline. 😶
Can it fly on beer and hotdish?
i was thinkin chris christie on one of them little peddle powered copters… nope… just a plane with big vats of whats probably inside chris christie
it suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: Airlines don’t want to buy SAF because it can be several times more expensive than standard aviation fuel
Only because we refuse to tax carbon, and increasingly subsidize fossil fuels.
Clean alternatives will be much more competitive once carbon is properly taxed, and we stop subsidizing polluting industries.
It is worse for jet fuel. The EU doesn’t tax jet fuel at all. The USA does tax jet fuel, but only at 28¢ a gallon.
Virgin Atlantic’s 100% SAF flight is a one-time stunt, and the airline won’t regularly offer all-SAF flights. Standard jet engines aren’t designed to run on only sustainable fuel, and it is too expensive and rare for it to be practical for airlines to run all-SAF routes.
It was just a publicity stunt. There is currently no practical replacement for jet fuel.
