Green Energy
A source of energy that is gotten from natural sources that are replenished faster than they are used
What is renewable energy?
Biofuel that can be used in place of tradition jet fuel
What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)?
An alternative to jet fuel
What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)?
The theory that suggests the more someone perceives a scientific consensus on an issue, the more they will believe in it
What is the Gateway Belief Model?
The public has fears of this energy source
What is nuclear energy?
This energy source has by far the highest energy capacity factor
What is nuclear?
A form of renewable energy that you can have on your own property
What is solar?
Way of recycling emissions into jet fuel
What is carbon capture?
This organization was set up by the Western Fuels Association and helped to establish the false idea that elevated CO2 levels were good for the earth
What is the Greening Earth Society / GES?
The main reason companies don't want to decarbonize
What is high costs/too much money?
This energy source harnesses thermal energy from underground and has been used for over a century
What is geothermal energy?
This piece of major energy infrastructure will need to be improved in order for renewables to become viable
What is the power grid?
The percent of the world that has ever gone on a plane
What is less than 20%?
The number of astroturf groups the Western States Petroleum Association set up in 2014
What is 16?
This oil giant said that they would decrease oil and gas production by 40% by 2030, but backtracked 3 years later
What is BP?
What are natural factors?
Larger planes and less layovers
What is efficiency?
The percent of total carbon emissions that are from avaition
What is 2.5%?
The year that the Kyoto Protocol was signed
What is 1997?
These two energy sources are less reliable because of the environmental factors that they use to generate electricity
What are wind and solar?
The amount of time that a specific source of energy is outputting the maximum level of energy.
What is energy capacity factor?
Planes that use electric in addition to jet fuel
What are hybrid planes?
Greenhouse gas containing things left behind by some planes
What are contrials?
The percentage of the Oregon Petition's signatories who had studied in fields related to "Earth, Atmosphere, or Environment"
What is 12%?
A specific reason it would be hard to decarbonize aviation, not money related
What is that planes have a long lifespan?