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Although it seems to be the same playbook as used by Trump - which so far has worked well for him. Deny deny deny and say you're the very best.
Keep your politics to yourself, it has nothing to do with the topic being discussed.
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This is off topic but it was startling to me when I looked at CO2 stats that there was so little air travel and so much energy generation and heating. I think we have just stumbled upon the real reason we haven't fully grokked climate change yet.. the problem is much simpler and more brutal than most of us perceive.
Installing a foam roof or replacing the insulation in your walls goes a long way and saves a lot of money on energy costs over time.
Shit. I take back everything I said about preferring to flying civilian aircraft. Throw me on a P3 or C130 any day. At least we took FOD seriously on those old things.
Shame on Boeing, and shame on the CEO making the typical blanket phrase.
I'm reminded of the comment linked here on reddit from a former Boeing employee employed 2008-2009 (allegedly). >To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how…
Is this some new thing making rounds on the internet? Airplanes account for 5% of all CO2 emissions, and only a fraction of that is individuals flying. The average American would have to take a dozen New York-Tokyo flights per year to even double their carbon footprint. I assume you’ve addressed more important sources of carbon emissions, such as moving to a state that doesn’t require heating in the winter or AC in t…
The overall impact of aviation is actually less than 5%, though it's fast growing and projected to be 5% and more. (And I doubt only a fraction is related to moving people around.) Note that aviation contributes to global warming in excess of its pure CO2 emissions; at very high altitude even water vapour is an issue. Another point of comparison: aviation's overall impact is about 10% of the entire transport sector, the same amount as all water based shipping.
Either way it's a huge amount, there is no such thing as just an integer percentage of overall emissions.
Source: Wikipedia and IPCC, mostly https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
Boeing South Carolina teammates are producing the highest levels of quality in our history,” Kevin McAllister, Boeing’s head of commercial airplanes, said in a statement. “I am proud of our teams’ exceptional commitment to quality and stand behind the work they do each and every day. Whoever is sitting down to write Boeing's PR response quotes needs to be fired, along with whichever c-suite exec is approving them. It…
Although it seems to be the same playbook as used by Trump - which so far has worked well for him. Deny deny deny and say you're the very best.
In North Charleston, the pace of production has quickened. Starting this year, Boeing is producing 14 Dreamliners a month, split between North Charleston and Everett, up from the previous 12. At the same time, Boeing said it was eliminating about a hundred quality control positions in North Charleston. These planes are going to start failing in unison in a few years.
Boeing South Carolina teammates are producing the highest levels of quality in our history,” Kevin McAllister, Boeing’s head of commercial airplanes, said in a statement. “I am proud of our teams’ exceptional commitment to quality and stand behind the work they do each and every day. Whoever is sitting down to write Boeing's PR response quotes needs to be fired, along with whichever c-suite exec is approving them. It…
> It's not acceptable to totally ignore actual safely issues being brought to light and respond universally with panglossian emptiness. Not only is it acceptable, it's effective . Until a 787 actually crashes and provides unambiguous evidence that the whistleblowers are telling the truth, it's a he-said-she-said situation.
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> It's not acceptable to totally ignore actual safely issues being brought to light and respond universally with panglossian emptiness. Not only is it acceptable, it's effective . Until a 787 actually crashes and provides unambiguous evidence that the whistleblowers are telling the truth, it's a he-said-she-said situation.
if there is a possibility that further analysis and research (of flight recorders, code inspections, ...) unambiguously proves a problem I don't see why precautionary grounding (by an authority with the proper jurisdiction) would be bad?
In North Charleston, the pace of production has quickened. Starting this year, Boeing is producing 14 Dreamliners a month, split between North Charleston and Everett, up from the previous 12. At the same time, Boeing said it was eliminating about a hundred quality control positions in North Charleston. These planes are going to start failing in unison in a few years.