Posted on 09/29/2016 6:46:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Aircraft engineers in Germany have successfully tested the world’s first four-seater plane that uses emission-free hybrid fuel cells to fly.
The 10-minute test flight Thursday at Stuttgart Airport in southwestern Germany involved two pilots and two dummy passengers.
The twin-cabin plane, known as HY4, was developed by aircraft maker Pipistrel, fuel cell specialist Hydrogenics, the University of Ulm and the German Aerospace Center DLR. …
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how rude to call the passengers dummies...
it’s not like they were volunteers for elan musks first trip to mars
Hydrogen cells. Oh the humanity!
I was looking at images of the HY4. It looks like two gliders welded together, with the engine in between.
More stupid crap for stupid people. How much electricity was generated to produce the hydrogen for the 90% efficient fuel cell? And what was the efficiency of the coal or whatever the was burned to generate that? And what were the emissions?
uses emission-free hybrid fuel cells to fly.
There are always emissions. In the most basic hydrogen fuel cell, if they get a perfect reaction, they are producing electricity while emitting water, which is by far the most abundant green house gas on the planet.
So, including the power used to make the hydrogen, I would bet that in regard to carbon emission and cost they would have come out ahead buying First Class tickets on a 747.
Libtards love re inventing things that look like wheels with square corners. They think it is Art.
Hey! Don’t let details get in the way of a good story!
I just despair letting stupid people who can’t see what a hoax this kind of crap is consider themselves the “intellectual elite” and that gives them the authority to mandate all sorts of even dumber crap than this that we are going to be forced to not just pay for but change our lives and burden our descendants with the insane results of. I am getting old and tired of seeing it again and again.
I cringe whenever a GOP politician crows about ‘hydrogen fuel cells’.
Where do they think hydrogen comes from?
As long as it is coal doing the generating, I’m all for it.
On another issue:
“Boeing and Airbus have also tested smaller fuel cell planes in recent years as the aircraft industry searches for ways to reduce emissions.”
Crickets perhaps.
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