airplane fuel consumption Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:51:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Norwegian Airline Most Fuel Efficient, British Airways – the Least https://www.greenoptimistic.com/norwegian-airline-fuel-efficient/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/norwegian-airline-fuel-efficient/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:51:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57747 British Airways and Lufthansa top the chart for the least fuel efficient carriers, contributing the most to carbon pollution from aviation. Air travel has quite a huge carbon footprint. Although many studies suggested that aviation tax for carbon emissions should be made obligatory if we are to reduce pollution, little is done about it. Some […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/norwegian-airline-fuel-efficient/feed/ 1 57747 Helmholtz Principle-Based Innovation Reduces Aircraft Consumption by 20% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/helmholtz-aircraft-wing-20090522/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/helmholtz-aircraft-wing-20090522/#respond Fri, 22 May 2009 09:31:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3562 Scientists discovered a new method to reduce an airliner's consumption and fuel costs by redirecting the air to waggle sideways around the wings. They are doing this with tiny air powered jets, making the air flow back and forth over the wing.

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