Am Freitag, 6. April 2007 09:04 schrieb Kiran Jonnalagadda: > On 06-Apr-07, at 12:21 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > This is something I have believed in for a looong time (and been > > reviled for being "cheap". I don't need to buy carbon credits for > > burning aviation fuel > > It may be worth doing the stats on exactly how much damage you're > causing to the environment. Take this: > > http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=48121 > > "If the [Boeing 737-400] plane is 75% full, one passenger is > carried 22.2 km for each liter of fuel burned (52.2 miles for each > US gallon of fuel burned). This fuel efficiency exceeds that of > almost all cars, when the driver is travelling alone."
Besides the fact that this statistical assumption may be questionable, It's what comes out of the back that causes the trouble, and not the fuel consumption alone. Planes produce gases which cause extreme damage particularly in the high altitudes where they are blown out. Martin -- Dr. Martin Senftleben, Ph.D. (S.V.U.) http://www.drmartinus.de/ http://www.daskirchenjahr.de/
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