Sustainability In The Air Why Airbus is betting big on hydrogen combustion
As the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, Airbus is in a unique position to drive aviation towards a zero-emission future.
In this episode, we talk to Amanda Simpson, Vice President for Research & Technology (Americas) at Airbus. She shares how the airframer is at the forefront of investing in new technologies and innovations that pioneer the sustainability spirit, chief among them being hydrogen.
Simpson says that over the past decade Airbus has tried a variety of different technologies and the company now firmly believes that hydrogen has the potential to offer a true clean fuel solution. We’ll learn about Airbus’ marquee ZEROe programme that includes as many as three concept aircraft of varying ranges and capacities that will run on hydrogen and could enter service by 2035. We’ll also learn about the role of sustainable aviation fuel, infrastructure challenges with hydrogen, the necessity of clean-sheet design and why hydrogen is more exciting than hydrogen-electric and all-electric designs.
If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with WIZZ Air’s Yvonne Moynihan on how the airline is using the latest Airbus aircraft to reduce emissions. Check it out here.
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Links & More:
The ZEROe demonstrator - Airbus
Interview with John-Paul Clarke, Co-Founder of Universal Hydrogen - Sustainability in the Air
Interview with Val Miftakhov, CEO of ZeroAvia - Sustainability in the Air
Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly - TechCrunch
Airbus prepares for its first megawatt-class hydrogen fuel-cell engine flight-test demonstrator
Hydrogen for aircraft: number crunching the solution, or the hoax - Hydrogen Science Coalition