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Airliner Completes Transoceanic Flight Using Green Fuel Sourced from Vegetable Oil
915 million tons of carbon were produced by the commercial aviation industry in 2019, but the industry is working to make that number smaller. In fact, many major players have a target of halving their emissions by 2050 in comparison to 2005. Reducing aviation-related carbon emissions is no easy task though, but one path to sustainability might be more sustainable fuel. (interestingengineering.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
So, burning vegetable oil “does not” result in the creation of CO2 and CO, or contaminants such as SOX & NOX... ???
I call bovine excrement on this...
I call bovine excrement on this...
You are correct. Burning a biofuel does result in CO2, SOX, although the sulfur content of biofuels will be lower. You'll also get NOXs since we can't get rid of that pesky nitrogen in the atmosphere. The point here is, rather than releasing carbon, as CO2 from ancient fossil fuels and increasing the global concentration of CO2, burning biofuels will, in theory operate as a net zero loop. Some plant absorbs CO2, uses it to sustain it's metabolism and growth, it gets harvested, converted into vegetable oil, then into biofuel, then combusted to produce CO2, water and heat. That process is not 100% efficient, and a lot of CO2 gets produced just in making the biofuel. The hope is the net release of CO2 will be significantly less than just burning fossil fuels. This is a demonstration, a start. We'll have to see where it leads.
Logically, this makes absolutely zero sense. Net CO2 = CO2 Produced - CO2 Consumed (by plants presumably). The source of the production is not relevant, whether fossil fuel or biofuel. Plants do not know or care where their CO2 comes from, fossil fuels or biofuels. The only way the variables mentioned can be tuned reduce CO2 is to 1) have more plants, or 2) reduce the production of C02 regardless of the source, or both.
We have put pure sesame seed oil in a diesel tractor and it ran very well. Rudolf Diesel was likely murdered for his insistence that his engine could run on vegatable oils.
Everyone knows that Rudolf "The Red Nosed" Diesel was killed by Big Pharma.
" Well I'm flying back to 'Frisco, on a jet that burns Crisco "