Just wait until Rolls-Royce buyers start asking for their hand out.
CNBC (12/15/19) reports: "Of all the headlines about Greta Thunberg’s U.S. tour this fall, one that traveled widely was this: The newly minted Time 2019 Person of the Year made her way from her native Sweden to America via sailboat, because she thinks jetliners emit too much carbon. The $800 billion annual market for airfares and the $700 billion market for equipment, led by jets, results in an aviation sector that produces about 2% to 3% of the world’s carbon emissions, according to jet manufacturer Airbus. Reducing them is among the industry’s top, and toughest, challenges for the next decade or more...Rolls-Royce has partnerships with Airbus and other players to work on both hybrids and fully electric planes. Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies, is selling a more fuel-efficient engine technology now, while its parent company works on longer-range projects, spokesman John Thomas said...Fully-electrified planes at passenger scale are far away, and so far are being designed in the expectation of serving shorter-term flights with fewer passengers. Eviation’s plane is designed to seat nine."
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"… the current U.S. administration’s rollback of dozens of Obama-era positive climate mitigation [and] the increasing use of disinformation on many fronts to weaken our democracy, and push the U.S. toward becoming a petroleum autocracy like Russia or Saudi Arabia."
– Jeff Severinghaus,
University of California, San Diego
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