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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/Kimber80 on 2023-12-10 20:44:59.
UK's first air capture plant is turned on to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into jet fuel
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The machine, developed by Mission Zero Technologies in partnership with the University of Sheffield, will run on solar power to recover 50 tonnes of CO2 from the air per year and turn it into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
There has been a lot of excitement about direct air capture recently - with companies like Alphabet and JPMorgan Chase investing significantly in it.
Dr Steve Smith, executive director of Oxford Net Zero, noted how these projects are “really small and really expensive”, adding that there are more energy-efficient alternatives to cut down greenhouse emissions such as switching to renewables.
Aviation accounts for about 2% of the world’s emissions and Ihab Ahmed, research associate from the University of Sheffield, said the fuel has the capacity to massively reduce the impact of aviation on the environment - and is an important step towards the government’s ambitious target to increase the use of SAF to at least 10% by 2030.
But Alethea Warrington, from the climate crisis charity Possible, told Sky News that the impact of these alternative fuels is “quite small”.
Warning “there’s a lot of problems with them”, the campaigner added: "SAF fuels which are made from carbon and hydrogen require an absolutely huge amount of energy that just isn’t going to be available to make them in any more than a very small scale.
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