Posted on 05/17/2019 12:52:23 PM PDT by ETL
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NASA funded scientists are working on an environmentally friendly electric plane that's powered by cryogenically-liquified hydrogen fuel.
The engineers have been given three years and $6 million (£4.6million) to create the tech which could revolutionize the aviation industry.
The aviation industry is often lambasted for not doing enough to help save the environment. ..."
At the same time, hydrogen is finally becoming a cost-effective fuel source.
However, hydrogen cells on their own may be able to power trains or turbines but they lack the ability to power a jet engine without weighing it down because they take up a lot of space.
Luckily, the University of Illinois researchers working on the project have found a way to cryogenically cool hydrogen cells so they can be condensed into a liquid and used as fuel.
When this hydrogen liquid is mixed with oxygen in the engine there is a powerful reaction, which results in a lot of energy that can be converted into electricity to drive an electric propulsion system.
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Oh the Humanicicle!
Eviation Aircraft plans to build and market the all-electric powered “Alice” commuter airplane in the next year. The company has chosen Prescott as its U.S. base of operations. (Courtesy photo)
If I were going to invest, this might just be the ticket.
Eviation Creates World’s First All-Electric Commuter Airplane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIDWwV_kRE
Here’s the morning report from Squaw Valley:
6am Snowfall Report Updated: Fri, May 17
9 in
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And it ain’t done yet! More on the way. So much for CLIMAGEDDON! and the impending GLOBETASTROPHE!
Hydrogen worked great for the Hindenburg.
LOL
And what does ‘frozen’ hydrogen look like?
Can it be made into popsicles? And if I drop it
down the toilet, what happens? Will there
still be a stick?
If the leftists were ever successful in banning petroleum-based fuel use, it would still need to be extracted for all these other purposes. However, without the larger combined fuels/products market, everything manufactured with it would go up in price.
I wish some conservative group would take a Tesla and remove every part from it that was made from petroleum, then hold a press conference to display the result. There wouldn’t be much left to see. Certainly wouldn’t have any tires or interior, and the electrical system wouldn’t work because there would be no insulation on any of the electrical conductors or components. And that’s just for starters.
I’m all for space exploration, but not a penny to NASA. Another American institution completely ruined by leftist retard bureaucrats. As bad as today’s FBI or CIA.
“And it ain’t done yet!”
NOPE! Cloudin’ up out here on the coast line, more on the way tomorrow! Take a week off in May and ski without lines!!
And never, EVER listen to loonies screaming CLIMAGEDDON!
Live your life and be happy!!
NASA, please worry about getting people ‘to go where no one has gone before’ and not about a hoax...
So, liquid hydrogen goes into fuel cells to create electricity to power a propulsion system. What is this propulsion system? Electric motors that turn propellers? Watch out for birds! Propellers are least efficient at high altitudes.
The largest industrial use of hydrogen is feed stock for synthesizing ammonia. That hydrogen is sourced from natural gas.
So they must use energy to separate hydrogen from natural gas and more energy to cool and compress.
The same ignorance and willful fraud as electric cars ...
THE ENERGY STILL HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE, AND THAT EFFECTIVELY TODAY (AND LONG INTO THE FUTURE) IS MOSTLY FROM BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
I seriously need to create that ‘Force Head Up Own Ass’ machine all the criminally demented leftists will have front of the line tickets to.
Methane plus high temperature steam gives hydrogen plus carbon monoxide which you can’t release into the atmosphere so you burn it into carbon dioxide. Oops!
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At least when an electric car’s battery runs flat, it can simply just park.
What does an airliner with 300 passengers aboard do?
Park Hard!
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