Abdul Basit Mohammad and Olav Mosvold—Avinor—Operating and Reducing Carbon Emissions in Over 45 Airports
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On a global scale, aviation accounts for two percent of carbon emissions, which may not sound like a lot, but is equivalent to all of the carbon emissions produced by Germany each year. Avinor is a state-owned company and the main airport operator in Norway tasked with maintaining and ensuring adequate air travel services in over 45 airports and reducing carbon emissions from air travel. Abdul Basit Mohammad is the senior advisor at Avinor and is joined by project manager Olav Mosvold to discuss how exactly they're doing this and the ways in which it could be improved.
Reducing energy consumption is the first step in reducing emissions, and this is done first and foremost by maintaining efficient traffic flow with minimal interruptions. Beyond efficiency, Mohammad and Mosvold discuss the viability of the electrification of aircraft and the use of biofuels as solutions to the problem of energy consumption and carbon emissions.
American and European aircraft producers, as well as traditional jet engine producers, are conducting research and development projects focused on the economy of electrification, which has been promising: not only is the maintenance cost of electric motors lower than traditional jet turbines, but electricity itself is a lot cheaper than jet kerosene.
Tune in and visit avinor.no for the latest news and information on upcoming projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
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| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the future tech podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | My guests are Olav and Muhammad. Actually, it's Abdul Bessied Muhammad, a senior advisor and Olav Musfeld, a project manager at a company called Avinor avinor avinor avinor. So, Olavoinor dot n o so a love and mau how you guys doing |
| 0:46.6 | doing pretty good how are you thank you |
| 0:49.3 | good yeah thanks for coming so tell me about the avenue It looks like you guys do multiple things. So what's the idea behind the company? What are you guys working on? |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, well, Avenor is the main airport operator in Norway. We operate 45 airports and we also do air |
| 1:08.2 | navigation service providing and air traffic management. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah I haven't flown to Norway. |
| 1:13.0 | That's why I don't know the name. |
| 1:14.0 | But now if I do, I'll know when I see the name there. |
| 1:17.3 | Oh, yeah, it's out to some people from the company. |
| 1:20.0 | They're very cool. |
| 1:22.0 | So what are some of the, I know there's a lot involved in running airports, what are the top two or three issues |
| 1:29.6 | that you guys are working on that are most important to you? |
| 1:32.1 | Well, basically you have to keep business going, keep operations open, maintain functionality |
| 1:40.0 | and regularity to enable aircraft to land and take off and passengers to flow through the airports and our airspace. |
| 1:49.3 | But we also do a lot of work on reducing carbon emissions and we also have some other |
| 1:55.1 | interesting projects. Yeah I've heard jets produce a disproportionate amount of |
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