The airline industry’s biggest climate challenge: A lack of clean fuel
The Peninsula
In a glimmer of progress for the daunting task of reducing air travel s climate impact, a newly built plant in rural Georgia is expected to begin pump...
In a glimmer of progress for the daunting task of reducing air travel’s climate impact, a newly built plant in rural Georgia is expected to begin pumping out the world’s first commercial quantities of a new type of cleaner jet fuel this month.
The $200 million plant from LanzaJet Inc. will be the first to turn ethanol into a fuel compatible with jet engines.
The facility is one of many efforts around the globe attempting to crack one of the biggest problems facing greener air travel: finding and developing cleaner feedstocks that can generate enormous quantities of fuel without triggering ripple effects that end up worsening the climate and biodiversity crises.
Progress thus far has been very limited.
Efforts to produce new types of cleaner fuels require hundreds of millions of dollars.