Can sustainable aviation fuels give us guilt-free flying?
Angeli Mehta finds out if we can make jet fuel sustainably – and cheaply
There’s a horrible irony: just as commercial scale sustainable aviation fuel projects are within touching distance, the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic leaves the airline industry haemorrhaging cash. No one knows how quickly or how far it will recover. But whatever happens, for the world to get to a net-zero-carbon economy by 2050 aviation will have to play its part.