Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue
Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue
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Flying Green
On the Frontiers of New Aviation

Author: Christopher de Bellaigue

Narrator: Christopher de Bellaigue

Unabridged: 2 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

Can flying be green?

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.

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 Patriot of Persia, The Islamic Enlightenment, and The Lion House, and 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. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoe

As an aerospace engineer working in the sustainable aviation field, I was very intrigued with this book. I thought that the technologies that were chosen to be focused on in this book were a pivotal choice and helped provide a well rounded view of the innovation happening in the area. I did find the......more

Goodreads review by Dayton

A short, helpful tour through aviation‘s climate problem and the primary technologies suggested to overcome it. The entrepreneurs and engineers interviewed are typically optimistic, although the author himself offers a more measured analysis. I imagine different readers might take away different mes......more