UK Fly Zero. Aviation in 2035. Go hydrogen, go electrons?

Hydrogen will likely win this race for medium to long haul .

But do keep in mind the first priority with hydrogen should be to change from our present massively polluting SMR / methane manufacturing method. (Which creates twice the UK's total CO2 emissions).

Also keep in the equasion the H2 supply chain to and storage of H2 at airports. A significant tech and commercial challenge in its own right.

The Aerospace Technology Institute is a UK government sponsered project. This concept is under the Fly Zero Initiative. Go GB!, we're good at aviation innovation.

For hydrogen we may end up using amonia instead. Again clean amonia manufacture should be a first priority, but the delivery and storage tech already exists, so a path of lesser tech and cost resistace.

First ten years of my career as an aeronautical engineer reminds me there are lots of tech issues putting liquified or pressurised hydrogen into an airplane and taking it to 40,000ft is a challenge. Hydrogen is a small leaky molecule.

Lets make clean hydrogen and do it. Our Grandchilden need us to. Urgently. For a better planet .net

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