Is Ethanol The Answer To Aviation’s SAF Challenge?

Graham Warwick November 10, 2023
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Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Since airlines started working with sustainable aviation fuel—back to the first demonstration flight in 2008—the industry has been adamant that it wants to use only waste streams as feedstocks to avoid competing with food for land and water. Talk has been about making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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