September 15, 20251 yr Well worth a listen to. To use biomass for in and out UK flights would take 68% of farmland (I think is what they said). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002j755
September 15, 20251 yr Did a back of the fag packet calc a few years ago and reckoned biofuel for planes would use about 25% of the worlds useable agricultural land.
September 16, 20251 yr Author 6 hours ago, Iceverge said: Did a back of the fag packet calc a few years ago and reckoned biofuel for planes would use about 25% of the worlds useable agricultural land. Prof. Brian Cox did the same calculation, but got a different result. At today's global energy usage, all the biomass on the planet would last 400 days. Plants will convert about 0.25% of solar energy to biomass, PV will easily convert 10%.
September 16, 20251 yr Is anyone seriously suggesting that biofuels should power commercial aviation? Last I heard most research was going into synthetic fuels that would, in the future, be based on green hydrogen - though that's not going to be cheap.
September 16, 20251 yr 16 hours ago, SteamyTea said: Prof. Brian Cox did the same calculation, but got a different result. At today's global energy usage, all the biomass on the planet would last 400 days. Plants will convert about 0.25% of solar energy to biomass, PV will easily convert 10%. It's hard to eat electricity though.
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