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>> In 2023 sustainable aviation fuel production was 600 million liters, representing 0.2% of global jet fuel use. https://www.iata.org/en/iata-repository/pressr

by ethbr1 3y ago

>> In 2023 sustainable aviation fuel production was 600 million liters, representing 0.2% of global jet fuel use. https://www.iata.org/en/iata-repository/pressroom/fact-sheets/fact-sheet---alternative-fuels/#:~:text=Aviation%20fuel%20suppliers%20will%20have,rising%20to%2070%25%20in%202050 https://www.iata.org/en/iata-repository/pressroom/fact-sheet... Look at the chart on the last page, top-left. That's how SAF production needs to scale to meet an aviation transition.

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Work is hard. We've made it this far, might as well keep going. There is always going to be a cohort of humans interested in solving what seems impossible, no?
- ethbr1 3y ago
  Not suggesting that we shouldn't! Merely suggesting that the predicate of this opinion piece (that the future will be radically and suddenly unlike the past) is unreasonable. The world will continue to decarbonize, but no economy is waking up tomorrow and saying "Surprise, market! We decarbonized overnight and banned fossil fuels."
  - polotics 3y ago
    Well no, this is not how countries will decarbonise. What will happen is some net fossil-fuel exporters will become net importers. Like for example the UK with natural gas. These changes somehow will still come as surprises, their impact will get misattributed, sudden (and unreasonable) things will happen. More I cannot predict.