“Joby took a pre-production prototype of one of its battery-electric aircraft and outfitted it with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank and fuel system. The modified, hydrogen-powered VTOL was able to complete a 523 mile flight above Marina, California…”

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      2 months ago

      Well, it’s a demonstration of hydrogen utilization. And if it spares ice vehicle trips, it’s just fine.

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          taxi-plane

          This will never take off.

          I see what you did there.

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              Where as with a hover-cab, before you get to theoreticaly use zoro-emission fuel, you first have to make it

              This sounds almost like tractors are born in a shed, not made in a factory.

              digging up and smelting rare metals

              Not so much and less with newer battery types

              shipping parts all over the world and churning them out in coal-burning factories.

              Again, see first comment. Out of curiosity, what are coal-burning factories anyway?

              You’ll be dead before your tractor catches up the starting costs.

              While tractors are relatively cheap, you fail to see all the disadvantages with them it seems. Like fuel grows in a fuel pump stations and I’m sure they are very beneficial to air you breath, not counting co2 emissions and many other negative aspects. Let’s do a test. I’ll lie down next to e-vehicle exhaust and you’ll do the same next to a tractor exhaust or any other ICE vehicle of your choice. Let’s do that for 5 minutes while engines are running.

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    I like the other test that showed a full sized standard issue commercial aircraft was able to be retrofitted with a hydrogen tank and a special heat pump. That seems like a good avenue for development.

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    The real use for this is to power the propellers of an airship, not some stupid air taxi.