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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

13th May 2024, 12:57

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Interesting, but obviously an American calculator...

Interesting, but obviously an American calculator as on the "getting around" page neither "on foot" or "train" are options!

We're away ATM having driven to The Netherlands, and it reckons we've...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th May 2024, 10:21

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Moving back to aviation, BHX is installing more...

Moving back to aviation, BHX is installing more than 12,000 solar panels along the SW facing noise bund that they claim will provide 20% of their electricity. An example of the kinds of action the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th May 2024, 10:15

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Presents the excellent "More or Less" on BBC...

Presents the excellent "More or Less" on BBC Radio 4 that investigates principally potentially dubious statistical claims. Well worth a listen on BBC Sounds.

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th May 2024, 09:18

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Where does that statistic come from? Looks to me...

Where does that statistic come from? Looks to me as though its one for Tim Harford.

If EVs are being charged overnight, as is sensible given there are cheaper kW/h rates available then if there is...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

9th May 2024, 12:38

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Nobody would deny that. People are wedded to...

Nobody would deny that. People are wedded to their cars, and the supposedly environmentally concious younger generation are no exception.

For myself although I own a small city car I only drive to...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

9th May 2024, 10:26

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

I absolutely grant you that Formula E will have...

I absolutely grant you that Formula E will have advanced battery technology, but unless there's a way of making synthetic fuels without using up valuable agricultural land its a red herring, or...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

9th May 2024, 10:01

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Well over the past 48 hours F1 has contributed no...

Well over the past 48 hours F1 has contributed no less than 4 x 777 and 2 x 747 freighters from MIA into EMA, each one positioned out after unloading their "toy" cars and ancillary equipment,...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

7th May 2024, 15:54

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Containerships are definitely "bad" but while...

Containerships are definitely "bad" but while they are chucking tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere they are also moving many more tonnes of products that we need, or at least want. The container...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

5th May 2024, 18:30

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

That is a sound concept. Reward the less...

That is a sound concept. Reward the less damaging, penalise the unnecessary and keep the status quo for the majority. The precise figures can be debated, but for private jets your 50 figure is...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

30th Apr 2024, 15:58

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Glad to see action being taken on "green wash". I...

Glad to see action being taken on "green wash". I wonder when / if the UK and other administrations will follow the EU's excellent example.

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

27th Apr 2024, 12:46

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Look, you are absolutely right regarding...

Look, you are absolutely right regarding population, but if a BBC report this week is to be believed births are falling now.

However if all the smaller (not insignificant) polluters do something...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

25th Apr 2024, 15:58

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

kcockayne, I fear you are absolutely right....

kcockayne,

I fear you are absolutely right. Western / developed nations are too full of their own importance and the human race too influenced by religions that tell them we (humans) are superior...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

25th Apr 2024, 11:32

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

TURIN, You are absolutely right, but as...

TURIN,

You are absolutely right, but as Tesco have been telling us ad nauseum for years "every little helps". There needs to be a sea change in public attitudes and demands. Fast fashion and the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

25th Apr 2024, 11:04

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

They only one of those that the human race has...

They only one of those that the human race has control of is war and I'd stand four square behind that ambition.

Sadly the human race is incapable of such a quantum leap.

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

21st Apr 2024, 11:51

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

If less flying took place might be a better way...

If less flying took place might be a better way of looking at it. When you look a cargo operations so many of the ad hoc flights involve long environmentally damaging positioning flights. Look for...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

16th Apr 2024, 09:34

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

You can bury your head in the sand as deep as you...

You can bury your head in the sand as deep as you want, or stick a pair of underpants on your head and a pencil up each nostril but that doesn't change the science.

A great deal of the rapid (in...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

5th Feb 2024, 09:11

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

The problem for airlines is that by and large for...

The problem for airlines is that by and large for your average leisure passenger the environmental impact of climbing aboard an aircraft for their weekend break in Barcelona, or two weeks on the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

4th Feb 2024, 11:42

Replies: 112

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Views: 9,880

Posted By ATNotts

Airlines, Airports, Routes - and climate change

Judging by the radical thread drift in the Manchester discussion, perhaps its time to air the subject separately so as not to pee off readers and contributors who's interest doesn't extend to the...

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