Sentences with phrase «cutting aircraft emissions»
The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.
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Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.
His team is exploring aircraft that blend wings and body into a single, unbroken structure that reduces aerodynamic drag, cutting fuel costs and emissions.
«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.
In the longer term, other clean hydrocarbon fuels are also likely to be important for cutting emissions from aircraft, shipping and long - distance freight vehicles that are more difficult to electrify.
From making aircraft more fuel efficient, to identifying infectious diseases more quickly, or cutting carbon emissions through innovative building solutions, research from Bath is making a difference around the world.
Airlines Cut Flights and Planes to Save Fuel Airlines Save Gas By Slowing Down, Just Like Drivers Efficient Modern Turboprop Aircraft Are Making a Comeback Perhaps Flying Turboprop Isn't Dying Turboprops Get Ecolabel More on Alternatives to Flying Seat 61: Get There Without Flying Eurostar to Cut Emissions 25 % and Offset the Rest Spain's New High - Speed Rail Challenging the Airlines High - Speed Rail Comes to the Americas CA High - Speed Rail Initiative: «If We Don't Pass This, We Will Never Have High - Speed Trains in the US»
While this is achieved through many measures including biofuels and aircraft improvements, aviation will grow faster than emissions can be cut.
But the proposal goes nowhere fast, requiring emission cuts from new aircraft of 4 % over 12 years.
As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.
Original: «The quickest way to cut emissions from aircraft could be better flight management rather than new technology, an Oxford University study has found.
The Guardian reports that the UK's «former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King... told a conference that massive helium balloons - or blimps - would replace aircraft as a key part of the global trade network as a way of cutting global warming emissions.»
Aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle sideways over their surfaces could significantly reduce drag and thus cut fuel consumption and emissions by 20 %, according to researchers at the University of Warwick (UK).
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But that's not the only simple improvement that could cut fuel use - now a team from the University of Warwick in the UK claims that «waggling» air accross aircraft wings could cut skin friction drag by 40 %, offering a 20 % savings in fuel consumption and emissions.