Here is a question for all you busy executives, deal makers and time-starved travellers. If you could save three hours flying from London to New York on a supersonic jet, but knew your journey would generate two to eight times the carbon of a flight on a conventional aircraft, would you do it?Two weeks ago, American Airlines put down an undisclosed deposit for 20 supersonic aircraft being developed by Colorado start-up Boom. Blake Scholl, Boom’s founder, believes there are enough of you out there to fill “hundreds if not thousands of these aeroplanes”. I am not so sure.
以下这个问题针对所有忙碌的高管、交易撮合者和时间紧迫的旅行者:如果超音速飞机能让你从伦敦飞往纽约的旅程节省3小时,但其产生的碳排放量将是传统飞机的2到8倍,你会选择搭乘超音速飞机吗?