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Aircraft Punching Holes In Clouds Can Increase Precipitation Around Airports

9:02 am in air planes, aviation, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

aircraft-induced hole in cloud photo Aircraft-induced cloud hole over Antarctica, image courtesy Science/AAAS Definitely interesting: New research in the journal Science shows how airplanes can affect the local weather around airports. As the planes fly through the clouds, they can punch holes through ones contained supercooled water, in turn stimulating precipitation. This research shows that increased in private and commercial flights are having an impact similar to cloud seeding, increasing snowfall around the world's major airports. The arti...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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KLM Completes First Biofuel-Powered Scheduled Flight, With Factory Farmed Fuel

12:02 pm in air planes, alternative energy, animal rights, aviation, biofuels, farming, Food & Health, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger

KLM plane wing photo photo: James Lin/Creative Commons Definite mixed environmental messages here: KLM has announced that it has completed the first biofuel-powered scheduled flight. Good, no, great. Decidedly less great, bad even: The fuel used on the flight, from the Netherlands to Paris, was made by Dynamic Fuel...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Honeywell Schedules First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Biofuels Flight

9:10 am in air planes, alternative energy, aviation, biofuels, renewable energy by TreeHugger

gulfstream g450 photo: Kentaro Iemoto/Creative Commons An important milestone in aviation biofuels: Honeywell has scheduled for today the world's first trans-Atlantic non-stop jet flight powered by biofuel. Flying between Morristown, New J...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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