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Rolls Royce conducts third test of hydrogen powered aircraft engine
In September, Rolls-Royce presented its AE 2100 test engine at an easyJet conference on the airline's roadmap to net zero aviation. Today the BBC has reported that Rolls-Royce, in partnership with easyJet, has commenced tests running the AE 2100 on hydrogen. (simpleflying.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The sheer volume hydrogen would take to get enough range to matter is going to make hydrogen-fueled aircraft difficult at best to be economic. You'll need wings the size of a Concorde seating less than 100 passengers to go a few hundred miles. I seriously doubt you'd want to go with liquid hydrogen just because of the insulation and icing problems alone, not to mention the material and ongoing inspection requirements to attempt to make this aircraft last more than a couple of hundred flights. In my opinion, this is going to be a gold-plated albatross.
Stan Meyers patented hydrogen production back in the 80's. Drove a vehicle from Ca. to NY on 22 gallons of water.
I hope everyone realizes that carbon fuels are never going to go away and the world will never be green unless we get rid of vehicles and go back to horse and buggy. Electric will need to disappear too, back to candles and lamp oils, firewood for cooking and heating. And lets not forget about the outhouse. But we all know none of this will ever happen...will it!!
Need to stop wasting money on the silly thought that the entire world is all of the sudden going to go green.
I hope everyone realizes that carbon fuels are never going to go away and the world will never be green unless we get rid of vehicles and go back to horse and buggy. Electric will need to disappear too, back to candles and lamp oils, firewood for cooking and heating. And lets not forget about the outhouse. But we all know none of this will ever happen...will it!!
Need to stop wasting money on the silly thought that the entire world is all of the sudden going to go green.
EXACTLY! They said it back in 1900 - a good horse & buggy will NEVER be replaced by those newfangled horseless carriages!
So, nothing was learned from the Hindenburg disaster? Just how I'd like to travel; in a flying bomb.
This is nothing like the Hindenberg. And do you think that jet fuel can't explode? Look up TWA 800.
Of course jet fuel can explode. But it takes a much higher ignition temperature. Hydrogen has an incredibly lower flash point. And while the Hindenburg was basically bags of hydrogen, a jet aircraft fuel tank is not much more than bags of fuel also. A stray spark in a hydrogen vapor environment is much more likely to result in a catastrophic explosion than in Jet A1/JP-8. I spent twenty six years as a crew chief on KC-135's and have some knowledge of jet fuel. Plus, one of our tankers exploded inflight in 1982 killing 24 souls so don't talk to me about jet fuel exploding.