
Episode 8: What if Planes Only Emitted Water
Everybody in the Pool
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The Cost Catastrophe of Aircraft Fuel
Sustainable airline fuel could end up costing four times more, just spitball in here, than green hydrogen. When you burn a hydrocarbon at 35,000 feet, you produce CO2,. You produce aerosols and soot and other things that also have a global warming impact actually more significant than CO2. Airbus and Boeing will have to make a decision by the end of the 2020s on what new single-isle or narrow-body airplane is going to look like.
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