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Worked with a PhD student who had an algorithm to tell airline pilots exactly when to turn their engines on. Probably saves more pollution than I or my descenda
by thom 3y ago
Worked with a PhD student who had an algorithm to tell airline pilots exactly when to turn their engines on. Probably saves more pollution than I or my descendants will generate in all of our lives so I feel I’m comfortably in the black there.
- thom 3y agoSame company as my answer to the useless question tbh so just goes to show…
- Cyberdog 3y agoCould you elaborate? Why would a pilot not know when to turn their engines on, and why is the timing not obvious (eg, "when we want the airplane to move")?
- 93po 3y agoThe engines need time to spin up and warm up, and additionally you might start them then (for a million possible reasons) have delay between starting them and actually pushing back from your gate.
- thom 3y agoEver started your car engine in a parking space but not been able to immediately pull out? Airports are extremely dynamic and complex and do not run like clockwork - they are pushing big hunks of metal through the air and across concrete with constant contention in both cases, and waiting for humans in between. But modern airports do try to optimise their Target Startup Approval Time (TSAT) and you can Google that term if you want to go deeper.
- namaria 3y agoToo bad humanity is a general partnership so we're all exposed to unlimited liability there.
- euroderf 3y agoI'd wonder how many variables go into a calculation. Dozens? Hundreds?