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This company wants to make air travel sustainable

Today, the Brooklyn-based startup has begun using the same process to make fuel for airplanes. Air Company’s sustainable aviation fuel, which was recently tested by the US Air Force, could ultimately help the airline industry hit its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Currently, the airline industry accounts for about 3% of total global carbon emissions each year, and mostly relies on traditional, fossil-based fuels that require various forms of environmental disruption to produce.

The final products are ethyl alcohol, which is used to make the company’s vodka and other products such as perfume, as well as paraffin, which forms the basis of its jet fuel. In some ways, Sheehan said, the process mimics how plants work: It takes in carbon, and aside from the final products, the only other offput is oxygen. And the company says its tests have indicated that planes should be able to fly using its fuel without blending it with fossil-based fuels or modifying their engines.

 

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air travel is only getting cheaper so if we wait long enough it will become profitable for the passenger's and a cost for the airline - a win win

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How much energy does it take to produce a gallon? Where does that energy come from?

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I guess it's a step in the right direction. We need to get carbon levels down, not maintain the same level though.

Climate change is not real. I had a professor that gave me statistics on why it’s fake. Meanwhile my kid drives his Tesla everyday while ridiculing me about how I’m destroying the planet. Won’t even golf with me anymore. What happened to this country?

So what comes out when you burn it?

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