The Future of Airplanes

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Airbus is promising to build a hydrogen-powered plane that enters into commercial services sometime in the mid 2030s. Hydrogen is now being seen as a kind of silver bullet for several so-called hard-to-abate sectors. There's this big need to scale up these solutions quickly to hit the 2050 target. Even if you can solve the technical challenge, there's a major business economic challenge there.

Europe’s ambitious climate targets are putting pressure on airlines and airplane makers to come up with sustainable alternatives to dirty jet fuel. Bloomberg reporters Siddharth Philip in London and William Wilkes in Frankfurt join this episode to talk about some ideas on the drawing table for cleaner jet engines–from battery powered concepts to aircraft that run on hydrogen.

Read the story here: Why Europe Is Emerging as a Green Aviation Test Bed

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