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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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Technically combustion is the breaking of chemical bonds to instead bond with oxygen; carbon need not be involved. (Actually, technically oxygen need not be involved either, but we have an oxygen atmosphere not a chlorine one, so it's gonna be oxygen.)
Good luck finding a non-carbon-based fuel suitable for commercial air travel though, hydrogen tanks are too heavy, while hydrazine and ammonia are out for obvious reasons
Could also be fluorine but there are other good reasons not to use anything involving that as a fuel
I think that bit was about Chlorine Trifluoride but I might be misremembering.
That is indeed the chlorine trifluoride quote