Originally Posted by
9mikemike
MEH, Wrong for sure on SAF. Not viable, not available, not scaleable and not affordable. Of course that can all be fixed like all other green technologies with punitive government measures for traditional energy and 100% percent forced taxpayer support of the “green technology. One more way for the super-elites to become more elite. Sickening
It's plenty viable, and has been demonstrated numerous times.
It can become available, and is certainly scalable... not all SAF is a boutique biomass process, you can make it out of air, water, and electricity. That scales infinitely.
It will cost more than Jet A, but at current niche production scale it's about 4 times more expensive so based on typical industrial scalability it should ultimately cost less than twice what Jet A costs. That's not great but presumably there will be subsidies and ultimately the industry can adapt to it. We're obviously not switching over all at once.
But technically I don't see any alternative, other than catastrophic regulatory caps on dinosaur-powered air travel. SAF is a "drop-in" fuel, that current aircraft designs can use. Alternatives like hydrogen would require total and radical re-designs of the the airplanes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Unless the green politics can be defeated, but I'm not seeing that either. I've given up whining about it.