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bob10
18th November 2020, 08:04 AM
Airbus wants to launch a plane that is completely CO2 neutral by 2035 with the help of hydrogen-powered engines. It's a big step away from fossil fuels and toward a cleaner future up in the sky.


EDIT Back in 1988, engineers in what was then the Soviet Union modified a three-engine Tupolev Tu-154 airliner in a way that the right engine was powered by hydrogen. They called the test bed Tu-155.

At Airbus a hydrogen-powered aircraft takes shape | Business| Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW | 25.09.2020 (https://www.dw.com/en/at-airbus-a-hydrogen-powered-aircraft-takes-shape/a-55051579)

Hugh Jars
18th November 2020, 02:31 PM
I note there's no mention of how expensive and how much energy has to be input to make commercial quantities of hydrogen.