Google, American Airlines and Breakthrough Energy develop new AI-based technology to reduce contrails

Google, American Airlines and Breakthrough Energy have come up with a technology to reduce contrails with the help of Artificial Intelligence. The three companies were undergoing research led by Google to find out whether AI could help airlines to reduce their climate warming impact by avoiding routes where contrails could form. According to the announcement, American Airlines’ pilots flew over 70 test flights over a period of six months. The flights used Google’s AI-based predictions that were cross-referenced with Breakthrough Energy’s open-source contrail models, enabling crews to avoid altitudes where the likelihood of contrails forming is increased. “After these test