Posted on 12/20/2022 12:06:09 PM PST by Red Badger
Virgin Atlantic just announced that it’ll operate a net zero carbon transatlantic flight in 2023. The flight will use 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as part of the airline’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change.
The science and other stuff to know
Virgin Atlantic has secured £1 million of Government funding to fly a Boeing 787 jet from London Heathrow to New York JFK in 2023 using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) instead of kerosene. The airline will partner with Imperial College London researchers, Rolls-Royce, Boeing, and researchers from the University of Sheffield in the project.
Boeing 787 flight is expected to be fuelled by 100 percent SAF made primarily from waste oils and fats, such as used cooking oil.
“The research and results will be a huge step in fast-tracking SAF use across the aviation industry and support the investment, collaboration, and urgency needed to produce SAF at scale. Our collective ambition of Net Zero by 2050 depends on it,” Virgin Atlantic CEO Shari Weiss said in a statement.
So what?
By entirely replacing kerosene, SAF could slash carbon emissions by more than 70 percent compared to conventional fossil jet fuel, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Using 100 percent SAF on the flight, combined with carbon removal through biochar credits, a material that traps and stores carbon taken from the atmosphere, will make the flight net zero.
While SAF is more expensive to produce than fossil jet fuel, it’s hoped that the London to New York Virgin Atlantic flight will demonstrate the viability of 100 percent SAF flights. It’ll also demonstrate the potential of decarbonized long-haul flights and bring us a step closer to net-zero aviation.
The Boeing 787 is likely to take place toward the end of 2023 with no fare-paying passengers on board.
What’s next?
Virgin Atlantic aims to become the world’s first net-zero carbon airline by offsetting all its carbon emissions by 2050. To achieve this goal, the airline plans to work with its suppliers and partners to reduce its carbon footprint and invest in renewable energy and carbon capture technologies.
The DSC sees the resistance to eating bugs, so this is the next idea -
You vill eat ze French Fries,
and you vill be happy.
Agree!
Crazy old hippie bat in Denver used cooking oil from her eatery in her old diesel Mercedes. It ran but stunk up the place when she went by.
LOL!
That’s why I enjoy FR...:)
Old mechanical injector diesels could use fry oil directly, just filter out the solids and you were good to go.
These new ones cannot. The high pressure piezo-electric injectors would jam up with the thick stuff.
It has to be processed to remove the thicker glycerin from the oil............
...combined with carbon removal through biochar credits, a material that traps and stores carbon taken from the atmosphere...
If I had to guess I'd say Virgin is getting into the "biochar" business too, scheming just like Algore.
And Democrats will channel public money into startup biochar companies, in exchange for campaign contributions. Quid pro quo.
It'd be an interesting math problem to figure out just how many french-fries have to be cooked to power this stunt.
I have a lot of items that trap and store carbon from the atmosphere.
They are called “plants”...................
Used cooking oil?
Wow. That’s great. But what good is that when the government bans ALL oil?
We’ll have to use our SUFR......................
Strategic
Unicorn
Fart
Reserves....................
How many restaurants have to give their used oil to power one flight?
What if all restaurants in the world contribute? That enough?
How about the cost of collecting the oil? That uses fuel.
The only net zero I see here is the iq of the journalists who write about it.
Well, one thing’s for sure.
Chinese restaurants won’t participate....................
I think Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are working on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from oil-laden algae. A flight using Jet A1 made from such a feedstock could happen within the next few years.
Using food for fuel is going to turn out to be a big mistake in the not too distant future.
I suppose the cooking oil just showed up, already processed, at the airport.
“Everything in nature is ‘net-zero’.
Nothing gets wasted...................”
Not counting forest fires and volcanic activity of course... asteroid strikes...
And NATURALLY OCCURRING undersea fissures spewing OIL for millinea.
“Crazy old hippie bat in Denver used cooking oil from her eatery in her old diesel Mercedes. It ran but stunk up the place when she went by.”
The Model T had a switch on the carburetor you could burn either gasoline or alcohol, a lot of farmers made their own alcohol.
Makes sense, thanks. I know it was said the old ones could get away with it easy. Low power but hippy lady didn’t care about that.
Cool, and I guess alcohol can kick some butt, they use it in drag cars.
Nothing gets wasted
I’ve seen many that do on skid row on the news.
Cooking oil from vegetables. Vegetables from farms. Farms use millions of tons of nitrogen fertilizers (made from natural gas) and millions of gallons of diesel and gasoline.
Doesn’t the total absurdity of this ever occur to them? Just skip the stupid vegetable intermediate steps and burn the JP4 directly.
Nothing leftists do to save the earth makes any sense.
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