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The technological challenges of the hydrogen airplane

2020-09-23T17:02:18.201Z


INFOGRAPHICS - Airbus presented new concepts of hydrogen devices on September 21. What about the many technological constraints to overcome before hoping to see these planes of the future fly?


Airbus wants to put a hydrogen aircraft into service in 2035. With this objective, all commercial aviation is embarking on a new challenge: to ban kerosene from its tanks.

And in particular to respond to the “flygskam” movement (ashamed of taking a plane for its CO2 emissions).

It is about becoming clean by replacing this traditional source of energy with hydrogen.

A revolution which is accompanied by a succession of technological challenges, concerning not only the engines, but which could go as far as modifying the shape of the devices.

Hydrogen

Above all, to fly on hydrogen, it must be manufactured.

However, there is no point in wanting to decarbonise air activity if the hydrogen is obtained, as is mostly the case today, from fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas.

It will therefore be necessary to create a green hydrogen production sector.

We can indeed obtain it, without producing greenhouse gases, by

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Source: lefigaro

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