At 3 mins 38 seconds I confused the horizontal with the vertical axis. Sorry about that!
What can we do to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel? In this video we look at battery powered planes, hydrogen powered ones, bio fuel, and synthetic kerosene.
Data about airplane emissions come from Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissi…
The figure for the increase of airplane efficiency is from this report:
https://theicct.org/sites/default/fil…
The figure for the energy per volume and energy per mass values for different fuels is from this paper:
https://www.mh-aerotools.de/company/p…
Data for the cost of bio jet-fuel is here:
https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/I…
The paper about the increased efficiency of gene-edited microalgae is this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3865
The number for the carbon-dioxide emissions of synthetic jet fuel comes from here:
https://www.transportenvironment.org/…
Numbers for the cost of synthetic jet fuel are from here:
https://theicct.org/wp-content/upload…
Market estimates for the increase in air fuel demand are here:
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/fil…
The recent report from the International Air Transport Association calling for support for synthetic fuels is here: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/202…
00:00 Intro
00:47 How Bad is Flying?
02:30 Electric Planes
06:32 Hydrogen
09:05 Biofuels
13:00 Synthetic Kerosene
16:05 Sponsor Message
Anyone who doesn’t believe that the airlines aren’t already doing everything they can in order to reduce their fuel usage costs, knows nothing about capitalism.
Can we make flying Green?
Not a snowball’s chance in Hell with the current definition of ‘Green’ and the dodgy accounting practices that entails back on terra firma-
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2023/01/24/sunshine_might_be_free_but_solar_power_is_not_cheap_877463.html
But you can always count on rebellious youth to see through the hypocrisy and utter BS of their elders from time to time-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/nuclear-is-the-future-of-energy-young-people-call-for-end-to-nuclear-ban-in-australia/ar-AA16GKNS
Remind me again why people are worried about having more CO2. The more CO2 we have, the better things get. More rain, warmer weather, more vegetable growth, more arable land, and forest, and a longer growing season are all positives.
No. Next stupid f&cking question.
German Greens finally work out the meaning of the word tradeoff-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/companies/germany-considering-withdrawal-from-crop-based-biofuels-by-2030-lobby/ar-AA16HoXd
Duh!
What can we do to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel?
I loved her saying lorry instead of truck. Very droll.
Today is Burns Night. I will be eating a swede with my haggis. Glad to hear that 19 swedes weigh the same as two average Germans.
I was expecting the Dambusters theme with that caption pic!
Go BRICS and stop being a western whatever