We've Got Electric Cars. Why Not Electric Airplanes?
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The Environmental Cost of a Commercial Flight
A flight from Frankfurt to New York emits about the same amount of carbon dioxide as heating 440 German homes for about a year. Airlines are flying hundreds and thousands of planes at any given time, so the scale of the problem is massive. The airline industry itself has set itself net zero targets by 2050.
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