While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for
liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.
Undoubtedly these are early days, and many challenges remain in creating truly sustainable biofuels, and certainly in creating truly sustainable aviation — but unlike land and sea
transportation, airlines have very few if any alternatives to
liquid fuels, so initiatives
like this are an encouraging sign that aviation may be able to weather the inevitable transition to a post fossil -
fuel economy.