I wonder how well this scales up? Canada uses X litres of aviation fuel per day, replacing that entirely with SAF would require Y kWH of renewable energy and Z tons of biomass... how do those numbers fit with Canada's potential in those areas? And what is the global potential?
I wonder how well this scales up? Canada uses X litres of aviation fuel per day, replacing that entirely with SAF would require Y kWH of renewable energy and Z tons of biomass... how do those numbers fit with Canada's potential in those areas? And what is the global potential?
As Ben notes in his explainer, bio-SAF only makes sense for *waste* biomass. If you're growing plants to turn into bio-SAF, it's far better for the planet to instead use that patch of ground to build solar/wind farms for electricity to make e-SAF.
Bio-SAF is a stopgap measure while e-SAF gets going, and then is a secondary supplier of SAF (might as well use waste biomass for this, rather than simply disposing of it)
I wonder how well this scales up? Canada uses X litres of aviation fuel per day, replacing that entirely with SAF would require Y kWH of renewable energy and Z tons of biomass... how do those numbers fit with Canada's potential in those areas? And what is the global potential?
As Ben notes in his explainer, bio-SAF only makes sense for *waste* biomass. If you're growing plants to turn into bio-SAF, it's far better for the planet to instead use that patch of ground to build solar/wind farms for electricity to make e-SAF.
Bio-SAF is a stopgap measure while e-SAF gets going, and then is a secondary supplier of SAF (might as well use waste biomass for this, rather than simply disposing of it)