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Old 06-21-2019, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Cheaper - by far - to just use fossil fuel and offset the carbon release with carbon capture technology. Doubt that will change in the next several decades, at least not without a hellacious capital investment that would take even more decades to recover.

Or build a nuke power plant and count the natural gas you are NOT burning as recapture.
Science, math, and logic favors offsets. But politics probably will require elimination of the carbon output, to remove the big target on the aviation's back (ala OAC). Aviation industry sponsored carbon capture (one for one) might suffice, and that could very well be cheaper than biofuel.
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