Professor Peter Styring has co-authored a Policy Briefing report by the Royal Society which was published today that looks at “Sustainable synthetic carbon based fuels for transport”.
The report looks at alternative strategies to decarbonise transport, including aviation and maritime as well as road. The Net Zero report has focused on electric and hydrogen vehicles but did not look at alternative fuels for existing combustion engines. This report looks at the economic and environmental feasibility of carbon-based fuels with lower carbon footprints when compared to fuels derived from polluting fossil oil-based fuels. Such fuels, including efuels, have been identified as transition fuels for the short and long term and form an integral part of the EU’s Clean Planet for All strategy.
These fuels are an important strategy in decarbonisation as they avoid new, virgin fossil carbon entering the supply chair.
Professor Peter Styring
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
“I am pleased to be a co-author on this very important Policy Briefing from the Royal Society. After one year as part of the Steering Committee it is great to see our recommendations going to government as an alternative strategy to complement electric and hydrogen vehicles in the drive to decarbonise the transport sector.
These fuels are an important strategy in decarbonisation as they avoid new, virgin fossil carbon entering the supply chair. Because many are drop-in fuels, this will allow rapid integration into the supply chain in a relatively short timeframe, increasing the speed at which we can address the climate emergency”.
