The following report is from the Jerusalem Post:
Earlier this month, a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington made a bit of aviation history, completing a 600-mile trip that the airline hopes will prove the first leg of a journey to a greener future.
In a first, one of the two engines on the 737 Max 8 was powered exclusively by fuel made from used cooking oil and rendered waste fat from beef, pork and chicken. Refined at a Southern California plant, the fuel produces about 80% fewer emissions than conventional jet fuel, according to the carrier. Biofuel had been mixed with conventional fuel in the past, but United Airlines said it had never been used by itself in the engine of a commercial flight.
The Chicago carrier made the flight to showcase progress it has made toward its goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It’s a goal shared by the International Air Transport Assn., the trade group representing the world’s airlines.
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But reaching the lofty goal of completely eliminating aviation emissions — responsible for 3% to 4% of the world’s carbon emissions — won’t be easy. It will take huge government investments in the form of tax breaks or grants and ground-breaking technological advances, such as the development of hybrid or all-electric jet planes, aviation experts and academics say.
In the meantime, airlines that want to use more low-emission sustainable aviation fuel will have to pay up to four times as much for it as they pay for conventional fuel, which could mean higher airfares for everyone.
It’s not clear how we are going to get there. Maybe by 2050, it’s possible if a bunch of things come together.
Jan Brueckner, a professor and chair of the economics department at UC Irvine’s Institute of Transportation Studies.
Not all airline executives are convinced aviation emissions can be eliminated by 2050.
“I think we are making a lot of promises we can’t keep,” Alex Wilcox, chief executive and co-founder of JSX, an independent airline in Dallas, said during a panel discussion on sustainability at a recent airline trade show in Long Beach.
Airlines say the effort — even if the goal can’t be reached — makes good business sense.
There are people who want to fly with an airline that reflects their beliefs and values. There are customers out there who are very interested in making their own lifestyle sustainable.
Said United spokesperson Maddie King.
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To complete the transition, airlines will eventually need to abandon combustion engines and turn to alternative technology, such as hybrid or all-electric aircraft, according to experts. IATA envisions making the switch to such technology sometime in the 2030s.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
According to the Agenda Absolute Zero plans, by 2030, “they” make it clear that almost all flights and airports will be non-existent. That is for the serfs of course. So how much of this will take effect and really matter? I am not sure, but flights in general I believe will ultimately be sequestered greatly, especially in these next several years. This is why the governments are so quick to ban travel, so the airline industry bleeds to death and no one wants to fly in fear of getting sick.
As it currently stands, if the airlines do switch over, it is only for a transitive time to ultimately ground the majority of flights.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I don’t want to get on a plane because they require the death shots. It was already bad enough after September 11th, but now, I’m not flying for any reason. I’d rather take a bus.