空飛ぶBear Aviatorの世界へようこそ〜

夢を実現するパイロットの卵達と夢見るキャビンアテンダント&国際英語の世界へ

Planes Are Ruining the Planet. New, Mighty Airships Won’t.

f:id:bear2249326:20191116174855j:imageRendered image of a hybrid airship. Credit: Lockheed Martin.

 

 

 

今日はちょっとカッコいい、飛行船のお話。昔、Zeppelinsという巨大な乗客用の飛行船が有りましたが、可燃燃料のために使われなくなり、今はPlanes(飛行機)の世界です。

この度、NewtypeのAirshipの構想が出来上がりました。

英語の習慣化の今日の題材です。

 

This August, Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic in a zero-emission sailboat to protest the high carbon footprint of plane travel. But there’s good reason to think she may someday travel to climate protests via airship — the same giant aircraft, buoyed by gas-filled balloons, that were popular in the early 20th century. Faster than cargo ships and able to alight inland as well as on a beach, many airships, also known as dirigibles, have fewer emissions than boats, and all are much more carbon efficient than planes.
While interest in early dirigibles waned after they proved too slow and, occasionally, too dangerous, climate change is making plane travel increasingly contentious. Now some scientists are considering airships as a serious transportation solution.