Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings

• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What are the other 0 carbon flight options? They are all flawed.

  We can engineer our way through flaws with enough effort though.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, but hydrogen has significantly more flaws than most other options. It’s been around for 50 years, has never been a commercial success, and just inherently kinda sucks.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Electricity has been around that long too though, yet there are no serious electric passenger planes (with a decent range)

      It has it’s flaws, but it may have a higher ceiling in terms of usefulness. They say they can make it work, which is more than I hear about electric planes for example.

      We should be financially encouraging 0 carbon planes, without controlling how, then let the engineers work what tech to do it with.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can also run an aircraft on biofuel with little to no modifications, with none of the downsides of hydrogen.

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