Household waste to Aviation fuel?!

[richbee]

OK< here's another renewable fuel story from The Engineer.
I'm imagining the concerns due to the Saudi Petroleum interest, to the not-yet-existing carbon capture technology, as well as the likely involvement of the Tory douchebag, Ben Houchens, who seems to have fingers in all sorts of dodgy pies around the Teeside freeport and the marine life disaster......
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/n ... -saf-plant

[AE-NMidlands]

another load of unbelievable bulls**t. When you see "actively seeking waste sources from around the UK " and "will require the equivalent amount of rubbish produced by Birmingham and the wider West Midland Metropolitan Area each year" you know it is just yet more subsidy-consuming pie-in-the-sky greenwash. Transport costs been taken into account?

"will build a number of processing facilities based on where those sources are located. These satellite plants will convert non-recyclable household waste into high-carbon content pellets, with the pellets then used to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Alfanar’s Lighthouse Green Fuels facility in Teesside."

So what is the unbound/available carbon content of unrecyclable waste nowadays then? Greeen future my a*se.

the Lighthouse Green Fuels plant will benefit from carbon capture technology being developed at Teesside's industrial cluster, alongside other advantages the UK provides.
“With the third largest aviation network in the world, a third of Europe’s carbon storage capacity, and readily available waste feedstock, the UK is perfectly positioned to be a world leader in SAF production,” he said.
“Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) delivers 80 per cent greenhouse gas lifecycle emissions savings compared to conventional kerosene, but fuel produced at our facility will deliver up to 200 per cent savings with access to Teesside’s Carbon Capture and Storage infrastructure. This means Lighthouse Green Fuels will not only be the biggest SAF production facility in the UK when operational, but the UK’s first negative emissions SAF project, and therefore a critical contributor to the UK government’s 2030 SAF targets.”

So how does the thermodynamics of [using energy for] making CO2 into an energy source/storage medium ever stack up?
As one of the comments said,

the UK industrial landscape is littered with the corpses of gasification projects, large and small, that tried and failed to make it work. Up to and including the 700,000 tonne per year Tees Valley One which forced Air Products to write off $1 billion