This category includes topics related to airlines and air travel. It includes discussion of topics such as aircraft engine design, fuel conservation, and fuel taxes.
Airplanes produce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants when they burn fuel. Some pollutants such as nitrogen dioxides and sulfur dioxides are released over a wide area from high altitudes, harming people on the ground and possibly contributing to 8,000 deaths a year, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To solve these problems, several […]
I went on a plane trip from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, and while I was waiting in the terminal I picked up a copy of the Economist to read. In the Economist’s Technology Quarterly, there is an article called Powering Up, that explains how to make airplane engines more efficient. The Economist reports that modern […]
A volcanic eruption spewed out a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere, and clogged the air with flakes of ash for several weeks. Flights are grounded because of the eruption, so planes cannot run their usual routes in Europe and connect travelers on the Atlantic coast to airports across the ocean. Surprisingly enough, the […]