Posted on 09/16/2021 1:12:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
British Airways operated its first-ever carbon-neutral flight powered by recycled cooking oil this week, a major step in the airline’s goal to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The plane traveled from London Heathrow to Glasgow Airport on Tuesday and was powered directly by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) provided by British multinational gas giant BP, according to a British Airways press release.
The flight’s SAF was blended at 35 percent with traditional jet fuel “in accordance with technical aviation specifications,” according to British Airways.
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What could possibly go wrong?
French Fried smell everywhere
Could they smell the Fish n Chips , LOL
On the bright side, it could make the whole world smell like French fries.
Carbon-neutral?
The mix was 65% jet fuel.
And even at that, the cooking oil wasn’t collected by hand. It was farmed. Trucked. Processed. Cooked with. Trucked again. All of that required fossil fuels.
How is that carbon-neutral?
Cute title demonstration. Now the UK can focus on how the heck they will avoid blackouts this winter with the main power cable from France disabled and the price of Natgas skyrocketing, and the winds and sun fading in the late autumn gloom.
Oh and the price of thermal coal is skyrocketing as well, even as Russian natural gas supplies to the EU have mysteriously dwindled. They may need to burn cooking oil to keep warm.
Never mind the carbon in the cooking oil itself.
Jet fuel is more like diesel than gasoline, isn’t it?
You can run diesel engines just fine with cooking oil.
As long as they’re not using bacon fat - that waste of liquid gold WILL rile me!
And everything that was used to manufacture it. And transport it. And lubricate it and........... Gertrude!
The greenies just pretend the cooking oil just magically appeared out of thin air. Et Voila! Carbon Neutral.
Just like they pretend that electricity for EVs comes out of the wall socket.
More like kerosene.
I bet if truth were told it would show that it actually requires more petroleum to create this recycled fuel than is saved. Anyone know the details? Also, I wonder how many birds were killed when they thought the were diving into a McDonalds dumpster full of left over McFries instead of an aircraft engine exhaust.
There’s just one catch... the plane smells like french fries the whole flight!
Don’t you remember the Chrysler turbine car? The touted advantage was it could run off all sorts of fuel such as kerosene, vegetable oil, alcohol blends, diesel, etc. This is possible if done right. It was killed off by tariffs on Italian goods, where the turbine was made.
There is also the possibility of using synthetic fuel made using the Fischer-Tropsch technology from the Nazi era. The idea is if you have enough electricity, such as geothermal from an submarine volcano (there are lots of them), you can make fuel with CO2 from the air plus hydrogen from the water.
BMW joined the coalition to make synthetic fuel:
https://newatlas.com/environment/bmw-prometheus-fuels-investment/
While freezing in Germany as Infantry,we would get warm behind the M-1s inhaling that distinct smell of Kerosene and Diesel. It can burn most any fuel as a incredible turbine engine.
You will need additives in the fuel to inhibit the fuel from icing while the aircraft is at 35,000 feet.
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