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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

Amazon aims to clean up aviation. The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets.

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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

GreenBiz

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay.

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'Fossil fuel free flying': RAF completes first flight with synthetic fuel

Business Green

An Ikarus C42 aircraft piloted by Group Captain Peter "Willy" Hackett completed a 20-minute flight on the morning of 2 November using Zero Petroleum's ZERO SynAvGas 100 per cent synthetic aviation gasoline, as part of a joint mission to defossilise the RAF's fuel intake ahead of its 2040 net zero target.

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Stop greenwashing of aviation: 5. E-fuels

Low Impact

Over five weeks we’ve published a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. 4 the promise of biofuels ; and this final one is about the potential for synthetic electro-fuels, or e-fuels. Too late E-fuels do not address the climate emergency.

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Global warming is projected to exceed 1.8°C, according to McKinsey report

Envirotec Magazine

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. Every year we’ve published this report, peak oil demand has moved closer. C by 2100, and reaching a 1.5°C

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Current incremental levels of change insufficient to meet global net zero ambitions by 2050, says KPMG report

Envirotec Magazine

Coal-fired power plant chimneys: In fast-growing economies, rapidly increasing energy demand is triggering investment in both low carbon and fossil fuel generation, leaving certain countries, including India and China, unlikely to reach net zero until much later.