How much does the airplane pollute??
2007-03-18 13:12:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Well, well. The liberal greenies are out in force tonight. The big gut really is on his soap box. Contrails contribute to global warming? Yeah, just about as much as you pollute the ocean when you **** in it. Okay, tell you what. Let's shut down all the airlines. No more jetting to Europe, the Bahamas, forget going to Japan on business. Christmas with your family on the other coast? Better get the old family bus ready for that 6 day round trip. Of course, you'll put out more pollution than the jet would have, but hey, let's keep the world safe from those nasty airliners.
As my hero, Bugs Bunny, would say, "What a maroon!"
2007-03-18 17:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They pollute like hell - everything about them is dirty - they burn 300,000 lbs (+) of fuel per trip, a turbine is not a very efficient combustor - so alot of it is unburnt; the grey water dumped down the sewers of airports from airplnes has to be treated with toxic chemicals to kill the pathogens that 3rd world passengers - reintroduce into the developed countries through their excrement - the fluids used in airplanes have to meet extremely harsh requirments and therefore are highly engineered and extemely toxic to humans - yet these are dumped down the sewers in places like India. The De-Icing fluids used to de-ice airplanes are extremely toxic - yet these are sprayed all over the place around airports in the winter time, the Condensation trails left by airplanes contribute minutely to global warming because the shield the earth from sunlight. Everyhting that is on a commercial jetliner is dirty and toxic and non-biodegradable.
2007-03-18 14:59:03 · answer #2 · answered by thefatguythatpaysthebills 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very little actually, compared to cars.
Airplanes, jets anyway, burn a fuel that is much like kerosene which burns cleaner and more efficiently than gasoline.
They DO pollute, but not like gasoline or diesel engines.
2007-03-18 13:16:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot for each individual airplane but there are relatively FEW airplanes.
Thus cars and motocycles are a MUCH huger problem.
2007-03-18 13:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alot if you look at the actual emissions compared to cars but very little if you look at per passenger, if everyone drove their own car between airports rather than fly, it would be more polution...
2007-03-20 08:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by ALOPILOT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read that one flight across Atlantic is like as much as one car in 10 years
2007-03-18 13:15:55 · answer #6 · answered by Paul 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Much less overall than that number of people driving their cars to where ever the plane is flying to.
2007-03-18 13:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by oklatom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite a bit. Thats why places like Terrapass allow you to offset the carbon dioxide used to transport yourself when you fly. (Expedia even has an automatic link!)
2007-03-18 13:16:03 · answer #8 · answered by Jonny Chicago 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
only polution you get from a airplane is what comes down, there's no warning.
2007-03-18 13:15:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
More than cars. Oil tankers are worse.
2007-03-18 13:15:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋