Posted on 12/29/2023 4:56:24 PM PST by algore
A new aviation company has developed a type of jet fuel made entirely from human sewage.
Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene.
James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels CEO, said: "We wanted to find a really low-value feedstock that was highly abundant. And of course poo is abundant."
Independent tests by international aviation regulators found it was nearly identical to standard fossil jet fuel.
Firefly's team worked with Cranfield University to examine the fuel's life cycle carbon impact. It concluded that Firefly's fuel has a 90% lower carbon footprint than standard jet fuel.
Mr Hygate, who has been developing low-carbon fuels in Gloucestershire for 20 years, said although the new fuel was chemically just like fossil-based kerosene, it "has no fossil carbon, it's a fossil-free fuel".
"Of course energy would be used (in production), but when looking at the fuel's life cycle, a 90% saving is mind-blowing, so yes, we have to use energy but it is much lower compared to the production of fossil fuels," he added.
Across the world, flying contributes around 2% of global carbon emissions, which contribute to climate change.
It is a small fraction, but growing fast. And taking carbon out of aviation is one of the hardest challenges.
Electric planes are being developed, with a company in the Cotswolds promising hydrogen-electric powered flights for a dozen passengers by 2026.
But it will be years, decades maybe, before mass air travel will be powered by completely new technology.
So finding new, greener ways to make kerosene without using fossil fuels has become a global gold rush.
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Desented I sure hope!
Hey, will that still work when we if we are forced to give up meat in favor of bugs? /s
I read somewhere where Japanese scientists are making meat ( steak ) from human poo. True been for years
Never mind the Carbon Hoax, this is very promising news. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!
For us to fuel the private jets for the rich to attend their environmental award events then they would have to feed us, I see conflict and contradictions in this.
San Francisco could become a net exporter of this fuel.
How is the pround Mom of one of those Bio Waste Engineers supposed to tell her girlfriends at the hair salon what her son does for a living? //
But of course poo. Some silly old song we sang in high school included the line, “...and the gas from his @ss blew the cat out the door.”
Wonder whether this inventor heard that song as a child.
Wagpoo steaks?!
Brown contrails across the sky.
How much carbon is in our poo?
Wyagpoo beef?
Ya beat me.
What’s that I smell?
Is it a plane or is that Uranus?
Cow dung has been traditionally used as a source of energy in India for centuries.
So basically it’s like flying Spirit Airlines.
Fuel from libtards I knew they were good for something
“has no fossil carbon, it’s a fossil-free fuel”.
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