We are all aware of the environmental impact of air travel. Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Flightracker website reported nearly 200,000 flights taking place every day. Every second, an aircraft was either taking off or landing somewhere in the world. The pandemic has drastically altered this scenario, bringing the entire aviation industry to an unprecedented standstill. It is anticipated that the industry may not fully recover until 2022 or 2023.
However, does this imply that by 2022, we will resume emitting the same amount of CO2 as before? Even prior to the crisis, there was a recognition that flying needed to become more sustainable. Perhaps, the pandemic presents an opportunity for us to reconsider our approach. How can we reconcile environmental protection with our essential need for mobility? Do we require new aircraft and aviation fuels, or should we simply aim to reduce air travel? We aim to explore these questions and seek insights from aircraft manufacturers, scientists, and transportation experts regarding the future of aviation.
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Utter LIES & BS to tax & control the plebs..YouTube is bought & owned
There's still 100 times more C02 in the Martain atmosphere than Earths and its still cold, especially at night and the Sahara used to be a rainforest 35,000 years ago and Antartica used to be a swamp, with no polar ice caps during most of the Earths history.
I love what you do ❤
Reduce the impact?
Of course we can… but what good will that do?
Destroy already fragile economies or “save the planet”?
I think that the first point is the answer and the second a utopia which comes from Marxism (or those who adopted it, that is to say the ecologists who are fans of degrowth)
When we know that since 1800 the global temperature on Earth has increased by 0.4 degrees Celsius… we must take a step back and remain reasonable!!!
THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO BRAINWASHED FOR ZOMBIES 🧟♀️
CLIMATE CHANGE ANOTHER PONZI SCHEME FOR TAXPAYERS MONEY AND ELITE TO MAKE PROFITS
There is no `cLiMaTe cRiSis`.
Love the U.N. context note 😂😂😂 shit's getting very, very thin. Even if they are correct, they're doing a wonderful job setting people's bullshit detectors off🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
Let me put this in perspective with some numbers rather than just opinions. Globally aviation causes only 2% of emissions for passengers which rises to 2.5% if we include freight. There are claims that the effect on global warning is 3% if the fact that the emissions of water vapor are at high altitude. (debatable) .
-Here are some other common contributors to emissions: Cement Calciniation 5% Steal Making 3%, Road Transport 28%, Marine Traffic 4%. Electricity production 30%. Agricultural tillage and ammonia-fertilizer production maybe 10%. (Energy = food unless you want to walk behind an oxen or horse)
-Here we can see the fist priorities and decision we must make:. Aviation is an almost insignificant contributor and also because it is expensive sector to de-carbonise its best to focus limited resources elsewhere. For instance using a carbon neutral supply of hydrogen to produce carbon neutral Iron and Cement is far more cost effective than using it in aviation and of course the main priority of investment is produce carbon neutral electricity in the first place.
_If aviation needed to be decarbonized there are 3 ways
1 Improved airframes and engines which are going to yield a 30% reduction in emissions in 20 years.
2 Using a carbon neutral fuel such as hydrogen (lquid or compressed)
3 Using A Carbon Neutral hydrocarbon jet fuel called PtL Power to Liquids or electrofuel. These work by extracting CO2 from the air and combining with hydrogen to make Jet fuel (or petrol). It's already in low rate production from several suppliers. It's up to 60% efficient to make.
What not to do: Electric Aircraft. For Ranges over 100km the weight of batteries of an electric aircraft make the aircraft 3 times heavier and therefore bigger for the same cargo and this uses MORE energy rather than less.
I don’t understand why we humans think that we should live forever?? I mean look at other species of animals and plants. They all go extinct after a set period. We are just arrogant.
Fake
Global aviation produces 0,5 ppm of CO2, a life bringing gas for nature. Without it we DIE.
Of the 400+ ppm co2 (0,04% of total atmosphere), 95% is made by nature. We humans contribute a mere 20 ppm.
There has been and always will change in the climate… just wait till the whole place freezes over again 😂😂😂😂
Electric jets, electric gliders and use of sustainable fuels.
No
No
Climate change is a HOAX