
Episode 8: What if Planes Only Emitted Water
Everybody in the Pool
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Why I Know So Much About Airplanes
A hydrogen airplane and a hydrogen burning jet engine require no fundamental breakthrough. It is within the realm of existing technology, as I mentioned. We flown hydrogen airplanes dating back to the 50s and the Soviets flew an airliner a couple of decades ago. So it is absolutely doable to do airliners up to the A3 2737 sort of scale on hydrogen without any significant change to the airplane or significant changes to the engine.
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