Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation
T156@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDepending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.
Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Considering the long term goal for them is to have them in planes at 30k ft, im sure they are entirely designed with the idea of humidifying the air to an ideal point prior to it getting to the catalyst for the reaction