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Aeroplane/Airplane fuel efficiency and global communication

Posted by Edwin on June 9, 2020
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Airplane/ Aeroplane fuel efficiency

 

Airplanes use the vast majority of their fuel relative to  horizontal distance traveled, on takeoff  and relatively little cruising at high altitudes and on descent.

Short flights of perhaps up to 3 hours  are therefore the most wasteful and carbon polluting.

These short flights  could be curtailed where there are alternatives such as delaying meetings or online meetings or efficient ground transport, however long haul international flights which are by far the most efficient and have no alternative should be resumed as soon as possible for the sake of bringing the worlds peoples together not separating them.

Plastic Chook Food

Posted by Edwin on January 5, 2014
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For those who don’t know what chooks are ,they are Chickens .

24 years ago I observed my own chooks hoeing(eating) into a styrofoam tray .This caused me to think about the reasons for it and the consequences .

Given that, except for a few additional elements ,the material is organic ,albeit greatly altered organic remains of high energy content  (CHO )., Which theoretically could be digested and absorbed by a living body ? If possible it seemed a great way to have a win win , dispose of waste and produce food .

I sent this proposition to Uof Q and QUT  back then ,at the risk of being ridiculed , or just ignored as a nut case . It seems the latter was the case.

Though the whole idea might be very distasteful ( pardon the Pun ) ,to some or most I thought it worthy of discussion . Though I popped it up for discussion several times over the years  I received no feed back ( again I did not intend that to be Punny ).

It would be very easy to pelletise and its seed like appearance shoud be vey appealing to birds ?