Maybe we can get paid not to carry carbonated water as ballast -- just
like the farmers get paid not to grow crops.

At 19:13 13 February 2009, Jim Logajan wrote:
Dave Newill wrote:
Posted in humor -but with some actual possibly that it might work! Now
the EU is going to start charging corporate aircraft for their Carbon
Footprint. So if I "sell" my flight time in a sailplane to some
corporate aircraft operator - could that not "offset" some of his
fleets carbon footprint?

But gliders tend to require more footwork, so wouldn't that make the
carbon
footprint larger? ;-)

(Except for silicon-based life forms, which have no carbon footprint.
They're just a bunch of heels anyway.)