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geez, they do a lot of number juggling around this "sustainable air fuel", and I'm really very suspicious that when I look into it, all the sources are from places like british patrolium
The best I can get is that they are processing oil/crops into fuel - that's where the "sustainable" part comes from, because they can make more of it instead of digging it up out of the ground. They also have a lot of funny maths around the amount of carbon reduction, sometimes it's 40%, sometimes 60%, sometimes 80%.
The carbon 'reduction' seems to be not actually real, they are just finding ways of hiding the carbons - or using something that doesn't work at scale and using those numbers.
Ultimately, this is a ploy to keep planes flying and generating profit, hiding the environmental impacts so they can tell the governments that mandated action, that things are getting better.
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase
Never trust statistics you haven't made up yourself.
And even those assume you're not trying to lie to yourself