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The obvious question is whether we could switch all aviation from jet fuel to cooking oil. Commercial aviation consumes about 200 million tons of jet fuel per y
by credit_guy 4y ago
The obvious question is whether we could switch all aviation from jet fuel to cooking oil. Commercial aviation consumes about 200 million tons of jet fuel per year. The world annual production of palm oil (by far the highest yielding vegetable oil crop) is about 75 million tons. Can we expand this by a factor of 3.5?
Currently palm trees for palm oil are planted on about 50 million acres of land. For comparison, in the US about 30 million acres are planted with corn for ethanol production.