CAS cobalt-manganese catalyst converts 83% of carbon monoxide from wood syngas in testing
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report a cobalt-manganese catalyst that converted nearly 83% of carbon monoxide from wood-based syngas in testing. So far the case for cheaper fuel rests on one producer's profit projection, and no price has been published for the airlines that would buy the fuel.
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Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain in two research projects that track emissions claims on sustainable jet fuel and renewable diesel. With no fuel volumes or timeline attached, the test cannot yet be sized against Shell's Avelia registry, credited with more than 84 million gallons since 2022.
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A plasma upstream of a copper electrode turns CO2 into methanol and butane
A Yale group reports in Nature Catalysis that exciting CO2 in a plasma before it reaches a copper electrode yields methanol and butane, products the team says electrocatalysis alone does not make. The cell runs at room temperature.
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Approved airport expansions already push UK aviation past its 2038-42 carbon budget share
Tyndall Centre modelling for Friends of the Earth puts the overshoot at 21 to 50 percent before Heathrow enters the sum, and the width of that range shows how much of the expansion case rides on plants nobody has built.
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- Hype gap+20
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Niutech's first refinery contract writes unsorted plastic into a jet fuel feedstock spec
Interesting Engineering reports the buyer unnamed and the conversion yield undisclosed, which leaves whoever holds the contaminated bales with a genuinely new intake spec to sell into and no way yet to price it.
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- Hype gap+44
- Incentives79
- Confidence33