What David MacKay thinks about aviation
Physicist. Professor at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to his death in 2016, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2009 to 2014. Wrote Sustainable Energy — without the hot air (2008), which he published free at withouthotair.com.
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1 dated position, 2008, in their own words. Our reading of what David MacKay has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsplanes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be. Planes unavoidably have to use energy for two reasons: they have to throw air down in order to stay up, and they need energy to overcome air resistance. No redesign of a plane is going to radically improve its efficiency.
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