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in general, biofuels are not the greatest, but it might be the best solution for aviation.

The US military has already proven a jet aircraft can be run on biofuels.




Combustion of biofuels still produces CO2, which is one of the outputs these projects are trying to eliminate.


The concept of biofuels is a closed carbon cycle (more closed but not ideal). Plants with the aid of the sun scrub CO2 from the atmosphere, you make the plants into biofuel and then burn that back into CO2 in the atmosphere.

As opposed to digging it out of the ground where it's happy staying outside of our environmental system.




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