The science of NOx… and is rail really greener than flight?
The latest GreenAir Online came out today, with two interesting articles. One reviews last week’s seminar hosted by The Royal Society in London and the aviation research team at Omega. The session looked at the “Non-C02 Impacts of Aviation” and the article gives a good outline of some of the latest research being done by the Omega project into the effects of gases emitted by aircraft. The other article highlights a paper that has been released by Belgian short-haul carrier VLM comparing the per-passenger emissions from short-haul turbo-prop aircraft and trains – interesting reading…
Posted: October 6th, 2008 under aviation, environment, Research.
Tags: aviation emissions, flight, greener transport comparisons, NOx, omega research, oxides of nitrogen, plane, rail, trains, VLM