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Can flying be green? Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless—except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. In Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue meets the inventors, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who are at the frontier of new technologies, from a European startup that makes fuel out of thin air, to a California firm using hydrogen to power flight, and an airship called the Flying Whale. What will it take for a new generation of travelers to fly guilt-free? This is the story of the search for a way to fly green.
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Can flying be green? Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless—except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. In Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue meets the inventors, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who are at the frontier of new technologies, from a European startup that makes fuel out of thin air, to a California firm using hydrogen to power flight, and an airship called the Flying Whale. What will it take for a new generation of travelers to fly guilt-free? This is the story of the search for a way to fly green.Author
Author Bio: Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue is a historian, linguist, and multidisciplinary writer and journalist with expertise in Islamic worlds. He is the award-winning author of five books, including The Islamic Enlightenment, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2017. He has also made several television and radio programs for the BBC. He read Iranian and Indian studies at Cambridge University and then spent twelve years reporting from South Asia and the Middle East. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, and New York Review of Books. He has reported from Kabul on the invasion of Afghanistan for the London Review of Books and lectured in Tehran (in Farsi) on the work of Orhan Pamuk.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Technology & Engineering |
| Runtime: | 2.81 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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