Archive for February, 2008
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Virgin Atlantic completed it's flight with a biofuel blend - about 20-25% biofuel, the rest was the current aviation fuel, Jet A (kerosene). The flight was on a 747-400 from Heathrow to Amsterdam. Two very notable things about the flight: the fuel is a drop in fuel (no retrofitting of ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I promise this blog won't turn into BART Rage (but it could!). The SF Chronicle reported that Bart is working on making tickets that can resist the fare erasing power of magnets. I never realized how many magnets I carry in my bags until I started riding BART. ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The Guardian reported today that a leaked UN report calculated CO2 emissions from global maritime shipping to be 4.5% of the global man-made total. This would put maritime about equal to or above aviation's contribution, depending on the study. There are now talks about including shipping in the EU-ETS ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Virgin Atlantic is ready to test a B747 fueled by bio-fuels sometime in the next couple of months, as reported by the SF Chronicle. They haven't noted what their bio-fuel is composed of (beyond stating that it comes from sustainable sources), nor have they noted an exact date, but fact ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Friday (2/8) I'll be a part of the largest US cell phone traffic monitoring study. As noted by the SF Chronicle, there will be 150 drivers (100 at a time) testing segments of I-880 using GPS-enabled cell phones. The prospect of having real-time travel times built into GPS systems is ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
According to Aviation Week, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill to go before Congress in mid-February will commission a study to evaluate current greenhouse gas emissions from aviation and also their future. I think a study that fully details the estimation methodology and includes projections based on detailed and varied ...
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