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Modern Fuel-Efficient Jetliners Worse For Climate Change Than Older Models, Study Finds
12 Aug 2024 | Abstracted from EandT
"Researchers at Imperial College London used machine learning to analyse satellite data on more than 64,000 contrails...contrails and jet fuel carbon emissions cause a double whammy warming of the climate"To reduce jet fuel consumption, modern aircraft are designed to fly at higher altitudes where the air is thinner with less aerodynamic drag...they create contrails that take longer to dissipate – creating a warming effect..."
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