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Flying Green
On the Frontiers of New Aviation
Christopher de Bellaigue | 2023
Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless—except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look.
In Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue meets the inventors, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who are at the frontier of new technologies, from a European startup that makes fuel out of thin air, to a California firm using hydrogen to power flight, and an airship called the Flying Whale. What will it take for a new generation of travelers to fly guilt-free? This is the story of the search for a way to fly green.
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
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Most of the technologies he documents will be well known to anyone with an interest in the area: electric planes, hydrogen aircraft and sustainable aviation fuel. But his reporting is far more engaging than conventional accounts of efforts to make flying safer for the planet. “This masterpiece of nomenclature should on no account be attempted when drunk,” he writes of what is known as the Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft, or eVTOL.
At less than 100 pages, Christopher de Bellaigue’s new book is a snappy yet detailed guide to the challenges aviation faces in a world trying to transition away from fossil fuels.
– Chris Fitch, Geographical
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About the Author
Christopher de Bellaigue is a historian and journalist known for his reporting and books on the Middle East and environmental and ethical issues. He is the author of many books, including In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, Rebel Land, Patriot of Persia, The Islamic Enlightenment, and The Lion House. He is a frequent contributor to the Economist, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian. He is the recipient of a British Foreign Press Award and the Washington Institute Prize.
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