DAC-Only Flying: 100% Climate-friendly Aviation Now

Flying is to climate action what bacon is to vegetarians. It’s the rock that tempts the weak from the path of righteousness. With DAC-only flying, stepping on a plane and flying could become completely climate-friendly.

Flying causes huge amounts of CO2 emissions compared to trains, cars or anything else people commonly do, and carbon offsetting is controversial and opaque – in 2021, carbon offset forests are being burnt down by climate change-induced wildfires and with that and other developments, the very potential for dealing with CO2 emissions is being taken away.

Let’s change that.

Let’s tell the government to make airlines extract the CO2 out of the atmosphere that their planes put there. Every arrival and every departure must pay cash up-front to fund the removal of the CO2 emissions from the atmosphere by the only guaranteed method known – Direct Air Capture.

So sign up to Carbon Watchdog, fund us on this campaign and we’ll create:

  • a letter with a million signatures to hand over to law makers in government
  • an official government petition to trigger a debate in parliament, congress, the senate
  • an advertising campaign to push the idea out to the general public
  • a bill sponsored by a sympathetic law maker to introduce the required legislation
  • sister campaigns in the North America, Europe and other aviation hubs
  • a way to hurtle through the skies in a thin metal tube without destroying the climate!

The DAC FAQ: does DAC-Only Flying make sense?

Isn’t carbon offsetting a waste of time?

Doesn’t that include technology like DAC?

Is DAC the same as Carbon Capture that the oil and coal industry are promoting?

What about money?

Donate

All the work at Carbon Watchdog is only possible thanks to donations. If you want to support this and can afford a small regular donation, please sign up at Patreon red Patreon logo. More About Carbon Watchdog here.

Resources

Carbon Capture keeps proving its critics right. https://medium.com/lobbywatch/carbon-capture-keeps-proving-its-critics-right-what-comes-next-32ac9750a7aa

Abdulla A., Hanna R., Schell K.R. et al: Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments Environmental Research Letters 16 014036 (2020)

Wizz Air aviation industry CEO big mouth says it like it is: Sustainable Fuel, Offsets are ‘Greenwashing’ https://fairfuel.atmosfair.de/en/plant-technical-details/

Climeworks want Germany to support direct air capture like they supported wind and solar – interview https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/support-direct-air-capture-germany-supported-wind-and-solar-climeworks

A Charter Flight Broker Offers ‘Permanent’ CO2 Solution https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-09-30/swiss-charter-broker-offers-permanent-co2-solution

Hanna R., Abdulla A., Xu Y. et al.: Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis. Nature Communications 12, 368 (2021) – this explains some of the economics involved and how it would hinge on immediate investment to boost the future capacity for upscaling.

A new factory in Germany is turning CO2 into e-kerosene. https://fairfuel.atmosfair.de/en/plant-technical-details/

McGinnis, Rob: CO2-to-fuels renewable gasoline and jet fuel can soon be price competitive with fossil fuels. Joule 4.3: 509-511 (2020)

Photo by Josue Aguazia on Unsplash
Carbon Offsetting – an overview
Carbon Offsetting sucks CO2 out of the air – or just sucks?