By Elissa Garay AFAR, Mar 3, 2022 Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think Electric aviation is no flight of fancy: Leading airlines like United and EasyJet are onboard as early adopters, with the first U.S. commercial routes slated for 2026. Photo by Nicolas J Leclercq/Unsplash What will electric aviation look like? Think smaller planes, shorter flights, and lightweight …
Electric aircraft calculations
By Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan, Clean Technica, Oct 2021, https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/22/electric-aircraft-coming-soon-to-save-us-or-all-hype-greenwash/ It’s not easy keeping up with the rapidly changing world of electric aircraft. It can look like a blizzard of breathless media coverage, corporate press releases, animations, venture capital deals, and public offerings. But as the launch dates creep closer, companies have been releasing more details, which makes it possible …
TRB AQ and Aviation 2021
AV030 Annual Committee Meeting https://sites.google.com/site/trbav030/past-committee-events/2021/2021-annual-meeting Meeting Presentation ACRP Update Presentation Special Topic Presentation: Mobilizing Voluntary Contributions for Aviation Carbon Meeting Notes AV030 Subcommittee Meetings Aviation Air Quality Air Quality Sub-Committee Overview Presentation Presentation: Electric Aircraft Presentation: ACRP 02-85 Commercial Space Vehicle Emissions Modeling Aviation Sustainability & Climate Change Presentation: Improving Environmental Impact of Airport Construction Presentation: ACROS Tool Value to …
Concept airplane could eliminate 95 percent of aviation’s NOx emissions, reducing early deaths from plane air pollution, about 16,000 per year, by 92%
Generally, the environmental cost of flying is high. At cruising altitude, planes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides (NOx) into the troposphere, which eventually convert into ozone and fine particulates, an MIT press release noted. According to the U.S Energy Information Administration, an independent statistic and analysis organization, ozone in the troposphere is harmful to human health and adds to the climate crisis. WWF estimated …
Pursuing greener and more efficient airplane designs
By Ben Morris & Theo Leggett BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51751984 (also see article below – ridehailing reduces airport parking by 7%) At an undisclosed location Airbus has spent months testing a radical looking plane. At 10ft (3m) wide, it is only small, but it could be the start of something very big in the aerospace industry. It looks like a flying wedge …
An e-aviation revolution
BBC.com 2020 Is this the start of an aviation revolution? By Diane Selkirk11th February 2020Aviation is one of the fastest rising sources of carbon emissions from transport, but can a small Canadian airline show the industry a way of flying that is better for the planet?A As air journeys go, it was just a short hop into the early morning …
World’s Richest 10% Emit up to 43% of the Carbon: Flying is most of it. Researchers say we need sufficiency not just efficiency + more attention to emissions from air and land transport, and to the fairness and equity of it all
The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to safer environmental conditions. Any transition towards sustainability can only be effective if far-reaching lifestyle changes complement technological advancements. The wealthiest 0.54%, about 40 million people, are responsible for 14% of lifestyle-related greenhouse gas emissions, while the bottom 50% of …
Green bailouts: relying on carbon offsetting will let polluting airlines off the hook
May 27, 2020, Ben Christopher Howard, Doctoral Researcher in Nature-based Solutions, University of Birmingham The coronavirus pandemic has grounded thousands of aircraft, contributing to the largest-ever annual fall in CO₂ emissions. At some point though, the planes will soar again and with them, global emissions. Most airlines in the UK have committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. From 2026, …
Nine-seat all-electric aircraft set for first flight
Damian Carrington @dpcarrington 27 May 2020 Largest all-electric aircraft set for first flight The world’s largest all-electric aircraft is about to take to the skies for the first time. The Cessna Caravan, retrofitted with an electric engine, is expected to fly for 20-30 minutes over Washington state in the US on Thursday. The plane can carry nine passengers but a test …
No fossil fuels are burned to run this jet engine. It needs only air and electricity.
CHRISTIAN COTRONEO May 6, 2020 Tweet1Save Aviation Most jet engines, including the one pictured, burn fossil fuels. (Photo: Steve Mann/Shutterstock) A prototype for a new jet engine promises to fly passengers halfway around the world — without burning fossil fuels. The engine, developed at the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University, would allow passengers to fly carbon-neutral skies. Researchers say …