Business: Aviation / Global
Up in the air
As airlines and aviation bodies commit to a future without fossil fuels, the search for alternative, sustainable sources of power is in full flight. Monocle meets some of the sector’s key innovators.
Air Company’s proprietary Carbon Conversion Reactor
On a graffiti-tagged dead-end street in East Williamsburg, a neighbourhood that marries industry with Brooklyn cool, Air Company might seem, at first glance, to be just another artisanal distiller. Housed in one of a pair of galvanised-steel Quonset huts (a nightclub occupies the other), the start-up’s distillation machinery is running round the clock to keep up with the demand for its Air Vodka. A gold-medal winner in the 2019 Luxury Masters spirits competition, the beverage has the distinction…
