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Commercial Aviation All Set To Go Green
The jet engine has been designed by Pratt and Whitney, who specialize in design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines.
This engine is more efficient, less polluting and cheaper to use than almost everything else in the sky, and it could revolutionize an industry facing skyrocketing fuel prices and mounting pressure to clean up its act.
Pratt and Whitney has spent the better part of two decades developing the geared turbofan engine that burns 12 to 15 percent less fuel than other jet engines and cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 1,500 tons per plane per year.
It's being called one of the most exciting developments commercial aviation has seen in years.
"It's technology like that geared turbofan that's going to drive fuel efficiency forward for this industry in the short and medium term," said Earnest Arvi of the Arvi Group. "Alternative fuels show great potential, but they're decades away," he added.
Nearly 1,000 planes flown by domestic carriers will be more than a quarter of a century old by 2015, and Boeing officials have said that more than 10,400 new planes will be needed in the coming decades and making them as green as possible will go a long way toward reducing commercial aviation's carbon footprint.
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