Airbus Unveils Bigger Hydrogen Airliner Concept

Airbus's sudden postponement of its hydrogen aircraft development program in February set an ominous tone for what has been cited as among the most promising future aviation technologies but that's all history now. The planemaker announced at its annual forum last week that its plans for its ZEROe concept just got bigger. It unveiled a bigger and more capable airliner with four propellers, whose electric motors are each powered by hydrogen fuel cells. It's the latest in a series of proposals by Airbus for bringing hydrogen powered aircraft to market.


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“It turns out fuel cells are heavy”

It also turns out that manufacturing and storing hydrogen is costly and wasteful.
All of these facts are easily accessible in the publication entitled “Duh”.
Maybe the publication is not available on news stands in France?

AIrbus is probably looking for a means to have EU taxpayers underwrite its very large and expensive engineering staff with such claptrap greenie projects. Batteries are apparently dead, so let’s go with Hindenburg gas! Or unicorn gas?

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