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How do you make air travel greener? This Rolls-Royce pledge is a big part of the answer

The hunt is on for ways to make air travel less carbon-intensive, especially with demand set to soar as countries emerge from the worst of the pandemic. An announcement on Thursday by Rolls-Royce is a big step in the right direction…

Rolls has previously said that sustainable aviation fuel, which is produced from feed stocks such as cooking oil, non-palm waste oils from animals or plants and solid waste from homes and businesses, offers “net CO2 lifecycle emissions of at least 75% less than conventional jet fuel”.

Sounds good but we clearly need to make sure green feed stocks are adequate. Cooking oil is an obvious area we could easily boost via a number of measures.

• Green subsidies for fish and chip shops.
• Replace BBC presenters with much more rotund folk.
• Develop BBC food programmes such as the Great Green Fry Up.
• Introduce a Green BMI of 30 to make people less anxious about their weight.
• School meals could have Green Fry Up Day every week.

All easily implemented and pretty inexpensive considering the catastrophic alternative so let’s get frying.