We are working on a project for decreasing emissions from aircrafts and improving air quality in airports. We brainstormed some ideas for the solutions and put them in themes. Now we have to research these themes. I will be doing these two themes now. I went ahead and found sources that include information on the themes. Your only job is to summarize what’s in the sources. Please use all of them I want the sources to be summarized in the same sectioning of the themes and the sources, each one separately.
Theme 1: Improving efficiency/performance of aircrafts
Idea 1: Tesla technology to link all airplanes so that flight paths are more efficient (avoid turbulence but unsure if that affects emissions) electric plane.
Source: Autopilot technology in Tesla
https://www.tesla.com/en_AE/autopilot
Source: Fly Electric: The Aircraft of the Future Takes Flight
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/thomson-reuters-why-2025-matters/electric-flight/208/
Source: Airbus reveals new zero-emission concept aircraft
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/09/airbus-reveals-new-zeroemission-concept-aircraft.html
Idea 2: More aerodynamic shape (blended body plane already in works from NASA)
Source: Blended Wing Body – A potential new aircraft design
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/FS-2003-11-81-LaRC.html
Theme 2: Non-Scientific Solutions
Idea 1: Allocating 30 minutes for checking into each flight and having breaks in between flights since this will reduce the crowd coming to the airport by vehicles.
Source: Crowdvision (Solutions for airports)
https://www.crowdvision.com/solutions-airports/
Idea 2: Move the airports to very far empty areas where no one lives
Source: Airport construction and environmental sustainability concerns
https://www.urban-hub.com/cities/are-airports-becoming-the-cities-of-tomorrow/
Idea 3: Force the people who work at the airport to wear face masks in order to avoid the health complications that could occur as a result of bad air quality
Source: Not Just Coronavirus: Asians Have Worn Face Masks for Decades
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/not-just-coronavirus-asians-have-worn-face-masks-decades
Idea 4: Implementing NOx caps through airline fines per emissions created by said airline or aircraft type.
Source: “Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions will be taxable beginning on 1 January 2020.The charge is applicable to all Category A vehicles excluding electrics but including hybrids.”
https://www.revenue.ie/en/importing-vehicles-duty-free-allowances/guide-to-vrt/calculating-vrt/calculating-the-nox-charge.aspx#:~:text=Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions will,beginning on 1 January 2020.