2006-12-12 23:01:04 · 8 answers · asked by DEVON D 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
The idea that airplanes are among the worst polluters is highly inaccurate. According to a 1999 report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, airplane-fuel emissions total less than 3 percent of man-made emissions that might contribute to climate change. By far the biggest producers of emissions are cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, power plants, home heating systems and industrial manufacturing.
A Boeing 747 filled with passengers to only 75 percent capacity is more fuel-efficient than an automobile with a driver and one passenger in terms of fuel burn per passenger mile. Hard to believe, isn't it?
2006-12-12 23:05:41 · answer #1 · answered by Hawk996 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The average 747 transcontinental flight does less environmental damage than a herd of cattle does in the same time period just by farting. New science is confirming that man's impact on the environment is not as significant as we would like it to be. Unfortuinately, we're just not that important to the planet.
2006-12-13 03:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by pdkflyguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Less then if all those four hunderd and something passengers decided to drive from NY to LA. All modes of transportation today have some sort of damage on the enviroment. The idea is, that it results in much les damage if one aircraft flys the distant, as to all the occupants just drive over.
Also remember that jet engines are much cleaner burning than normal car engines.
2006-12-13 18:04:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 747-400 has a fuel capacity of 57,285 gallons and a range of 8,430 miles. The average fuel burn should be around 6 gallons per mile with a capacity of 416 seats or .015 gallons per seat mile which is about the same as a four passenger car.
2006-12-13 01:35:12 · answer #4 · answered by PriJet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it gives out more than a 777-200LR which can go round the world...half the tank of a 747 to go halfway round the world, while a 747 does a full (and more) tank for half way round the world
2006-12-13 01:44:56 · answer #5 · answered by Boeing 777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. Think about it like this, if you were to pee in the pacific ocean and had someone attempt to take a reading in the atlantic, you would find no reading what so ever.. The parts per million are so infintesimal, that it is impossible to gauge..
2006-12-16 11:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Shawn M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None what so ever.
2006-12-12 23:04:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
none.
2006-12-15 07:16:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋