Green Options

SAS flies slower to save fuel and lower carbon emissions.

Well, when I read this headline, conflicting views sprang to mind.

Firstly of course, being an Englishman with no sense of irony, I immediately leapt to my feet and saluted my queen and her armed forces.

Then I faltered slightly, and thought, if a crack team of SAS marines were being air dropped into some war-torn despotic state, surely, speed is of the essence, to ensure that the paras can be in and out again with time for a cup of tea a mere hours later.

The News & Observer reports that software company SAS is investigating whether to build a solar energy farm at the firm’s headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

The proposed installation would be able to generate 1 megawatt of electricity, nearly 10 times as much as the next-largest solar farm in the state. That facility, located at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, produces about 105 kilowatts of electricity.