Hydrogen: Is Sustainable Air Travel Possible? | ClimateScience #3

Published: 01 January 1970
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Batteries have started to revolutionize the way we travel on the road. But will they ever do the same thing in the skies? Today’s episode will look at how using batteries to power aeroplanes may be a bad idea and how using hydrogen fuel instead may be our best bet.

Check out our chapter on hydrogen to learn more: https://climatescience.org/advanced-e...

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“40 million aeroplanes took off in 2019 alone”: https://www.statista.com/statistics/5...

“One roundtrip transatlantic flight emits about 1.6 tons of CO2”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

“Average global emissions per person are 5 tons of CO2”: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/...

“If the aviation industry were a nation it would rank 6th in global CO2 output”: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact...

“one kg of battery only generates 2% the energy of a kg of gasoline”:https://insideevs.com/news/342679/tes... & https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells...

“It also stores 128 times more energy per kg than batteries.”: https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells...
“We only get back about 35% of the energy we put into this process”: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73...

“when compared to the 95% return in energy you get with batteries”: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73...

“Airbus is currently working on a hydrogen plane prototype that could become commercial by 2035”: https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zer...


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