{"id":165729,"date":"2023-06-14T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/electric-propulsion-breakthrough-produces-motor-that-could-help-to-revolutionize-green-aviation"},"modified":"2023-06-14T00:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:23:30","slug":"electric-propulsion-breakthrough-produces-motor-that-could-help-to-revolutionize-green-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/electric-propulsion-breakthrough-produces-motor-that-could-help-to-revolutionize-green-aviation","title":{"rendered":"Electric Propulsion Breakthrough Produces Motor that Could Help to Revolutionize Green Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-propulsion-breakthrough-produces-motor-that-could-help-to-revolutionize-green-aviation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at MIT say they have developed a new motor that could be used to electrify large aircraft, significantly reducing their carbon footprint with the help of innovative new electric <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/apec-conference-exploring-anti-gravity-warp-dive-and-advanced-propulsion-returns-june-10th\/\">propulsion technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1-megawatt motor has already undergone design and testing of its primary components, which the MIT team says helps demonstrate that its power generation is comparable to current small aircraft engines.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, pollution from carbon dioxide in excess of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/our-chance-transform-aviation-and-help-climate?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=edf_none_upd_dmt&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=1569518101&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwm4ukBhAuEiwA0zQxk2HTes4Go9ruuRetFHi_8QIetQyCOCPTm2DJMrsWzU_AbB4nMjMhEBoCYYIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds\">850 million tons<\/a> is produced by the aviation industry. If left unmitigated, those levels could increase by as much as three times by mid-century, concerns that have prompted caps on the carbon dioxide emissions of international flights that have been instituted in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at MIT say they have developed a new motor that could be used to electrify large aircraft, significantly reducing their carbon footprint with the help of innovative new electric propulsion technology. The 1-megawatt motor has already undergone design and testing of its primary components, which the MIT team says helps demonstrate that its power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}