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Jet fuel from thin air

3rd October 2019

Wow! This is what the future should look like. A Dutch pilot project is taking carbon dioxide from the air and using it to help manufacture jet fuel.

However, whilst the technology seems to work - in practice, the cost of manufacturing the fuel is currently prohibitive, the amounts of fuel produced miniscule such that many think that plant-based biofuels are much more likely to be the way that the aviation sector starts to operate in a much more environmentally-friendly fashion.

Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.