I tried to find out if Gates had ever defended his use of private jets, and he has [1].
He claims he's offsetting his carbon emissions "by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture and funding low cost housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas and so I have been able to eliminate it and it was amazing to me how expensive that was, that cost to be green".
I assume by "clean aviation fuel" he means sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which is biofuel made from recycled cooking oil and other waste materials.
Yes, it appears "clean aviation fuel" refers only to the feed stock, not the energy used to produce the fuel, nor "its total climate impact, including non-CO2 gasses and the fact they are emitted directly into the atmosphere." (quoting Vice).
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I tried to find out if Gates had ever defended his use of private jets, and he has [1].
He claims he's offsetting his carbon emissions "by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture and funding low cost housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas and so I have been able to eliminate it and it was amazing to me how expensive that was, that cost to be green".
I assume by "clean aviation fuel" he means sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which is biofuel made from recycled cooking oil and other waste materials.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-defends-using-private-je...
Gates: "Don't do drugs!"
World: "But you do."
Gates: "I'm responsible about it."
That'll go over well.
Yes, it appears "clean aviation fuel" refers only to the feed stock, not the energy used to produce the fuel, nor "its total climate impact, including non-CO2 gasses and the fact they are emitted directly into the atmosphere." (quoting Vice).