'Waste cooking oil will get airlines nowhere near holy grail of net zero'

Cooking oil won't help the aviation industry reach net zero

Ross Clark in The Spectator

"The attraction of SAF [sustainable airline fuels] for airlines is obvious," writes Ross Clark in The Spectator. Manufactured from "waste cooking oil" and "waste vegetable material", the fuel certainly "will do the job – albeit at a current cost of around four times that of normal jet fuel". So while it "might be a useful contribution" it gets the airline industry "nowhere near the holy grail of net zero". 

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Ben Wright in The Telegraph 

The issues at OpenAI show how difficult it is for companies "to juggle the imperative to make money with their broader societal purpose", writes Ben Wright in The Telegraph. "It’s not that, for want of a phrase, greed is good; it’s just that, as an organising principle, no one’s come up with anything better." So the solution to OpenAI’s troubles? A "healthy dose of good, old-fashioned capitalism".

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Mikulas Dzurinda on EU Observer

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Josiah Gogarty on UnHerd

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