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Coming: Emission-Free Inter-City Flights

Posted July 24, 2007 4:45 PM by Steve Melito

If this European Union-funded project is successful, there will be less need to bother about carbon offsets for short inter-city flights. The aim of the project is to prove the feasibility of hydrogen fuel-cell powered small commuter aircraft. The advantages of low noise and low emissions, say proponents, make this technology ideal for small urban airfields.

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Re: Coming: Emission-Free Inter-City Flights

07/25/2007 12:45 AM

The pure size of a storage tank for 1 hr of 20 kva hydrogen fuel cell system (just how small and light can a 20 kva fuel cell be?) prevents them from being usefull in cars. Now airplanes?

I get it. The fuel storage is in a mylar glad bag, about 10 stories high, on top of the airplane. No pressure storage problems, no smell, no ugly looking exhaust. No lightning problems, no static problems, and we can paint solar cells on the outside of the glad bag, too. Maybe we could add a propeller on the front to drive a generator.

When did I become such a cynic. You know, I think that this and many other projects ought to belong 50% to the inventors. But thaen they would have to pay a quarter of the experiment's cost up front, too.

And I thought my son-in-law liked to fly kites..

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08/07/2007 4:45 PM

Atlanta has a furture plans for that city with only electirc vechiles allowed inside the city. All trucks are to use loading docks in different supply area encircling the city and all cars using fossil fuel to be stored outside the city.

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