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American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails, but more fuel required (techxplore.com)
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[โ€“] nik282000@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So does a 54% reduction in trails offset the 2% higher carbon emissions?

[โ€“] Freeman@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Probably hard to measure as the contrails stay in the atmosphere for hours and the CO2 stays there for what, hundreds or thousands of years?