• Question: Why dont you want to do something in your work that helps he enviroment? i wont vote for you

    Asked by lasagnegirl12 to rhysphillips on 17 Jun 2011.
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      Rhys Phillips answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Hi lasagnegirl,

      Sorry to hear that. However my work IS about helping the environment. The reason new planes need protecting against lightning is because we are trying to stop making them out of metal.

      The reason for this is that metal is heavy and so uses more fuel which is bad for the environment.

      So we ARE helping the environment by making lighter planes – my part in this is to make sure that these lighter planes are ok when hit by lightning (as metal planes don’t get damaged anyway).

      Does that all make sense?

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