Intermediate & Degraded Land Crops No “Miracle” Solution for SAF, New Study Shows

CleanTechnica
By Transport & Environment…May 5, 2026, 12:47 am182 ptsTrendingTop
Crops grown between food harvest cycles or on low-quality land are seen as green solutions for powering planes, but T&E’s new study shows that so-called “intermediate crops” or crops grown on “severely degraded land” could only meet 4% of the EU’s demand for bio-SAF by 2050. Intermediate crops,…

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