Could Hybrid Tech Help Greener Planes Take Off?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Planes are hard to fully electrify. Heavy batteries and range limitations pose severe problems. Hybrid versions that use electric batteries and traditional fuel could help make the sector greener while fully electric plans are being developed. Sean Captain joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss. Plus, a recent study found that less than 5% of climate policies in 41 countries actually worked to reduce emissions. We’ll tell you what did work. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Thursday, August 29th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.9	An evaluation of more than 1500 climate policies in 41 countries found that less than 5% were actually effective at
0:36.9	reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What's going on? Our reporter Eric Neeler
0:42.0	will join us to explain. And sticking with
0:44.9	environmental concerns, the aviation industry is responsible for about 2% of
0:50.4	greenhouse gas emissions. It's set a goal of zero emissions by 2050.
0:55.0	Could hybrid planes be the solution to meet that? We're starting with a study that found most climate policies in 41 countries don't work.
1:12.4	That may sound bleak, but the findings did
1:14.7	highlight how nations can develop strategies that actually do cut emissions. Here to
1:20.5	tell us more is our reporter Eric Neeler.
1:23.0	So Eric, this study was published last week in the journal Science.
1:27.0	Describe to us how it worked.
1:29.0	How did researchers arrive at these results?
1:32.0	This was a study that looked at a big database of climate policies that are compiled by the
1:38.9	Organization for Economic Cooperation and development.
1:42.5	That's a Paris-based economic agency
1:45.2	that has been looking at these trends of policies
1:48.4	for the past, say 25 years or so.
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