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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 week agoYes, 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.
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.
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.
Dyf_Tfh@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Worldwide diesel/kerosene biofuel production is too low. Last time airbus made a demo on 100% biofuel made from algae, they bought the output of a whole year to run a single long haul flight.
There is a reason they say Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and not biofuel. They also need e-fuel / synthetic fuel made from hydrogen in addition to biofuel.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 week ago
There is a lot of biofuel being made of other fuel types though, so no reason why production of aviation biofuel can’t ramp up.