C-suite executives are increasingly focused on decarbonization. If it doesn’t cost them anything, or saves them money, that’s a bonus, but ESG attention is a Board-level item now.
Simplicity is the silver bullet of electric rotorcraft.
Policy makers and investors take note: regional air mobility is vastly more scalable, an actual path to a decarbonized future and much lower risk.
New report conducted by Guidehouse Insights and commissioned by Civil Society Institute, Millennial Action Project and RMI shows lasting impact on local economies and job growth from investing in renewable energy, battery storage, and controls for microgrids.
Some of the eVTOLs will end up in billionaire’s stables, along with their other rarely used toys such as Bugattis, but they can afford to be frivolous.
There’s a deep disconnect between the purported urban taxi business models and most of the graphics these eVTOL companies use, which hides a yawning chasm of reality.
Battery-electric aviation will be over 50% of flights by 2070, and approaching 100% by 2100. Aviation-related warming will be under a third of 2019 levels by 2060, and drop to close to zero by 2100. In 80 years, flygskam will be a thing of the past.
For commodities traders, businesses, strategists, and policy makers, I would recommend being very leery of most of the market analyses currently extant for aviation fuels.
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is focused on empowering hispanics and bringing more of them into STEM, including through the 2021 SHPE National Convention in Orlando, Florida. Interestingly, Tesla has a booth and is actively looking for engineers at this week’s national convention (November 10–14). The theme for the convention is … [continued]
A new, if imperfect, pathway to zero emissions has emerged within the $1 trillion infrastructure bill now headed to US President Joe Biden’s desk. Sure, the bill has money for traditional bridges and roads and railways, but it also contains $47 billion designated for climate resilience. The objective is to … [continued]
