{"id":17183,"date":"2018-12-22T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2018-12-22T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T20:23:29","slug":"electric-planes-will-not-cut-enough-co2-to-justify-airport-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/electric-planes-will-not-cut-enough-co2-to-justify-airport-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric planes \u2018will not cut enough CO2 to justify airport expansion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2018\/12\/20\/15\/green-aircraft-trees.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>I call bullshit. A LOT can happen&#8230;should happen&#8230;in 30 years. Passenger and freight travelled by air is a HUGE source of emissions, and changing to CLEAN electric energy&#8230;from renewable, non-carbon sources&#8230;to power the majority of those flights would make a HUGE difference. I don&#8217;t buy this&#8230;sounds like oil industry party line backed by bullshit &#8220;science&#8221; to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With the best will in the world, electric flight is only going to be able to shave a few per cent off emissions from air travel between now and 2050\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Electric planes \u2018will not cut enough CO2 to justify airport expansion\u2019&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/electric-planes-aviation-carbon-emissions-third-runway-heathrow-expansion-climate-change-chris-a8693476.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/electric-planes-aviation-carbon-emissions-third-runway-heathrow-expansion-climate-change-chris-a8693476.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call bullshit. A LOT can happen&#8230;should happen&#8230;in 30 years. Passenger and freight travelled by air is a HUGE source of emissions, and changing to CLEAN electric energy&#8230;from renewable, non-carbon sources&#8230;to power the majority of those flights would make a HUGE difference. I don&#8217;t buy this&#8230;sounds like oil industry party line backed by bullshit &#8220;science&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16764,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/this-van-version-of-vws-electric-microbus-could-beat-it-to-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":17183,"position":0},"title":"This van version of VW\u2019s electric Microbus could beat it to market","date":"September 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The vehicle for tomorrow's hippie. #Fahrvergn\u00fcgen The Article 'This van version of VW\u2019s electric Microbus could beat it to market' originally appeared on https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/vw-id-buzz-cargo-electric-van-concept-release-specifications-solar-roof-21546843\/ Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;#blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17493,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/emissions-from-thawing-arctic-permafrost-may-be-12-times-higher-than-thought-scientists-say\/","url_meta":{"origin":17183,"position":1},"title":"Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than thought, scientists say","date":"April 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Be afraid. 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