The eFuels Revolution Is Taking To The Skies…In Texas, Of Course
While waiting for electric aircraft to take off, the aviation industry is eyeing SAFs and eFuels for a quick sustainability fix.
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85% Of Global Companies Don’t Have Credible Plans To Reduce Corporate Flying Emissions
World’s largest companies fail to set targets on most climate intensive form of business travel – air travel
Tesla Battery Day — A Travel Diary, Day #1: Travelling In The Time Of Corona
My week involves business travel from Germany to Tesla’s headquarters in Fremont, California, during the worst pandemic the world has seen for century.
EAG Reveals Hybrid Electric Airplane Concept
Earlier this month, EAG, a UK-based engineering and development company, presented what appears to be the world’s first hybrid electric airplane for regional fleets. It’s called the HERA, and with its ultra-low operating cost, whisper-quiet running, and room for up to 70 commercial passengers, the new concept promises to reinvigorate the sustainable mass transportation market.
OPEC Struggles To Manage “Permanent Demand Destruction”
OPEC is beginning to see the writing on the wall. Demand for oil is declining and may never recover. That’s good news for the Earth.
The Global Rich May Not Be Able To Dodge Clear-Air Flight Turbulence Due To Climate…
We’ll start seeing specific large-impact clear-air turbulence incidents attributed in part to climate change in the coming years, some regions of the globe will have worse impacts than others and newer planes will be better able to ride it out.
Musk’s Suborbital Flights Likely Lower Carbon, If Not Actually Cheap Or Pleasant
Musk might have something which would make the world even smaller and be more carbon neutral. The price and logistics might kill it, but not the speed and probably not the carbon footprint. Of course, if it took off and more people hopped to the other side of the world than do today, the net result would still be more greenhouse gases. Having traveled across the equator and international dateline several times, the duration, I can assert that the duration of travel is as much an inhibitor as the cost.
Rising Temperatures To Impose High Costs On Aviation Industry Over Coming Decades, Research Finds
The increasingly extreme temperatures that we can expect in many parts of the world over the coming decades as a result of anthropogenic climate change will considerably drive up aviation industry operating costs — owing to a need to regularly reduce takeoff weights when temperatures climb too high. That news is according to a new study from Columbia University.
Breakthrough Global Agreement Will Keep Air Travel Pollution In Check
Originally published on Nexus Media. By Jeremy Deaton You would never leave for a trip without knowing how you would get to your destination. And yet, the global airline industry just did exactly that. Last week, 190 countries agreed to slash carbon pollution from international flights. While world leaders celebrated … [continued]
