Comment on Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff

thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• master5o1@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • decerian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m guessing that they are (falsely) equating it to the hindenburg, when IMO it wouldn’t be much different safety-wise than current fossil fuel powered planes.

    It’s not like they would be filling the wings and luggage compartment with free-floating hydrogen, it stays in it’s tank

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    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hydrogen is very hard to make stay in it’s tank. And flying around with a tank of pretty much the most flammable element with a few hundred people sitting on top of it seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

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      • decerian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, but notably you can design to reduce the risk of leaking hydrogen. If the areas around the tanks are designed to allow any leakage to vent before it reaches dangerous levels, you can reduce the risk. Yes hydrogen is flammable, so tanks of it are dangerous. Jet fuel is also quite flammable, and we’ve used that for a long time.

        This is all in contrast to the design of the Hindenburg, which was specifically trying to hold onto a bunch of hydrogen in the flammable regime

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  • WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Something something woke liberal climate hoax.

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    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or, you know, the fact that hydrogen is extremely explosive and incredibly difficult to contain.

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  • ThePantser@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hindenburg

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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because hydrogen is highly explosive.

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• Tibert@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bad idea? You don’t even know how it works. So please don’t comment your s* opinion.

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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What makes you think I don’t know how it works?

    It’s a bad idea because hydrogen is highly flammable and explosive compared to jet fuel.

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    • Tibert@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You answered it yourself. You have no idea how these fuel canisters work. And not even how dangerous they are.

      Hint : they are extremely safe even at high temperature.

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hahahaha

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