{"id":397644,"date":"2021-01-28T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397644"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:31:50","slug":"airlines-could-reduce-co2-emissions-with-better-use-of-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-could-reduce-co2-emissions-with-better-use-of-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines could reduce CO2 emissions with better use of wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines could \u201csubstantially\u201d reduce their fuel consumption if planes become more efficient at riding the wind, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial flights between New York and London during the 2019-2020 winter could have used as much as 16% less fuel if pilots had taken full advantage of the jet stream, scientists at the University of Reading said in a paper published this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy adopting a more flexible routing system, carbon-dioxide emissions from transatlantic flights could actually be reduced by millions of kilograms every year,\u201d wrote lead author Cathie Wells, a PhD researcher in mathematics at the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines could \u201csubstantially\u201d reduce their fuel consumption if planes become more efficient at riding the wind, according to new research. Commercial flights between New York and London during the 2019-2020 winter could have used as much as 16% less fuel if pilots had taken full advantage of the jet stream, scientists at the University of Reading said in a paper published this week. \u201cBy adopting a more flexible routing system, carbon-dioxide emissions from transatlantic flights could actually be reduced by millions of kilograms every year,\u201d wrote lead author Cathie Wells, a PhD researcher in mathematics at the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}