{"id":575908,"date":"2010-05-22T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2434"},"modified":"2010-05-22T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:39:35","slug":"mit-designs-more-environmentally-friendlier-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575908","title":{"rendered":"MIT Designs More Environmentally Friendlier Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"2\" height=\"135\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"2\" title=\"MIT Concept plane\" alt=\"MIT Concept plane\" src=\"http:\/\/i.bnet.com\/blogs\/mit-plane.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MIT has designed two airplanes that are more environmentally friendly &#8230; quieter and with fewer GHG emissions.&nbsp; Based on work from a NASA research contract these may provide planes of the future &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;MIT &#8230; two new airplane designs &#8230; create more environmentally friendly planes &#8230; quieter &#8230; can take off from shorter runways &#8230; &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; &ldquo;D&rdquo; or &ldquo;double bubble,&rdquo; would use 70 percent  less fuel than a Boeing 737, according to MIT. Note the long, skinny  wings and the small tail.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; the H, would replace the Boeing 777 for  international flights. It&rsquo;s closer in design to current planes and would  burn 50 percent less fuel.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;NASA will pick two of the six teams to move forward, probably within  the next few months. &#8230; these planes  won&rsquo;t be ready to fly until 2035. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:<\/strong>&nbsp; SmartPlanet <a title=\"SmartPlanet\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/thinking-tech\/nasa-mit-greener-airplane-could-use-70-less-fuel\/4120\/\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has designed two airplanes that are more environmentally friendly &#8230; quieter and with fewer GHG emissions.&nbsp; Based on work from a NASA research contract these may provide planes of the future &#8230; &quot;MIT &#8230; two new airplane designs &#8230; create more environmentally friendly planes &#8230; quieter &#8230; can take off from shorter runways &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}