Tag: Biofuels
SAF Takes Off & Ticket Prices Follow: The Real Cost Of Greener Air Travel
A traveler books a long-haul flight from Frankfurt to Singapore and notices a line item labeled “Environmental Surcharge.” It’s not optional, and it’s not tiny. For most economy passengers, it adds somewhere between €6 and €20. In business class, it can go much higher. At first glance, this might seem … [continued]
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With a Technology License from MIT and NREL in Hand, Comstock Fuels Aims to Produce Jet Fuel from Lignin
Patent-Pending Technology Turns Lignin—a Plant Structural Material—Into Aromatic Hydrocarbons That Could Help Leap Over Synthetic Aviation Fuel ‘Blend Wall’ It is an ideal complement to Comstock Fuels’ own technologies: an additional refining step to upgrade lignin from biomass into aromatic hydrocarbons, which are molecules needed to produce “drop-in” synthetic aviation … [continued]
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BYD Seagull to Start Production in Brazil Next June
BYD’s plant in Camaçarí faced significant hurdles in late 2024 when Brazilian media denounced that Jinjiang, one of the three companies working on the construction of the factory, had been violating its workers’ rights. In late January, it was announced that all Chinese workers were going back to China after … [continued]
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From Darkness to Light: Iberia’s Rapid Grid Recovery Explained
On April 28, 2025, the Iberian Peninsula experienced a significant and sudden blackout, plunging large portions of Spain and Portugal into darkness and disrupting critical infrastructure for millions of people. The outage occurred at around midday, severing approximately 60% of the region’s electricity supply in seconds. The initial cause remains … [continued]
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There Is One Clear Winner In The Corn Vs. Solar Battle
Researchers claim putting solar on less than 4 percent of farmland used to grow corn for ethanol would benefit everyone, especially farmers.
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