A climate researcher who was fired from his job for refusing to take a flight back from a work trip has been awarded compensation in court for unfair dismissal. Gianluca Grimalda has been reducing his air travel since 2010. But in 2023, his employer, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Germany, terminated […]
working on it
https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel-Roadmap.pdf
https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/energy-transition/sustainable-aviation-fuels
Also defeatist and completely not true, billions of people are making an impact every day
Sustainable aviation fuel won’t fix climate change, though. As long as the fuel is carbon based, CO2 will come out which fuels climate change
Electrical Aircraft are a BAD idea, no matter what muSSk says
We need to get electricity from renewable sources to use for industry, homes, and CO2 filters world wide, and likely let aircraft fly with carbon fuels, I don’t see a viable alternative for that.
And on the carbon sequestration (CO2 filtering), please stop doing that now, it’s not the right moment and quite literally only makes the problem worse. First get everything transitioned. Once that’s done, then you can start sequestering and actually make a difference.
But really meaningful differences are penalized instead of subsidised.
We need the conversation to go toward rewarding individuals who make sacrifices like this.
in australia we have stcs
https://cer.gov.au/schemes/renewable-energy-target/small-scale-renewable-energy-scheme/small-scale-technology-certificates
essentially a discount on the renewables gear you buy
We have too much solar now in SA, check out the Price $/MWh:
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=3d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
and overall:
we also have lower interest rate home loans for people who add climate friendly renovations:
https://www.bankaust.com.au/banking/home-loans/clean-energy-home-loan
Nice, good job