Emily Kwong
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This week on Shortwave, with the price of jet fuel soaring, the hunt is on for other ways to power air travel sustainably.
How scientists are considering every possibility, even poop, to power the future of air travel.
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On NPR's Wildcard podcast, author Dave Eggers shares the advice he gives young people about AI.
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And Emily Kwong, and today we are taking to the skies on the wings of cooking oil.
Virgin Atlantic in 2023 operated a flight powered by biofuel and a synthetic alternative made from plant sugars.
This flight was incredibly expensive, receiving up to one million British pounds from the UK government, all to prove a scientific point.
that a plane can fully run on something other than jet fuel, which, as you know, comes from fossil fuels.
At any given moment, there are thousands of planes in the air, and jet fuel is the only thing energy-dense enough and cheap enough to keep that industry aloft.
But the war in Iran has put a damper on those economics.