EUROPEAN AIRPORTS BREAK AWAY FROM THE ENERGY GRID THROUGH AN INCREASING MOVE TOWARDS ON-SITE POWER PRODUCTION

BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS FOR many environmentalists - and indeed many others who wonder just where our energy is going to come from in future decades - the aviation industry can seem to embody everything that is wasteful about our current fossil-fuel dependent world. Aircraft guzzle kerosene in a way that suggests aviation is prepared to be the industry that swallows the last drop of oil, while airports often seem inefficient, and more interested in promoting consumption than in looking at using resources sparingly and turning to novel ways of maintaining ...


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