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From the flygskam movement shaming people who travel too often, to concerns about celebrities flying their private jets off to promote environmental issues, the pressure is increasing on the aviation industry to do something about its carbon footprint. 2050 has been marked by many countries as a year to achieve net-zero emissions, but aviation has another benchmark in its sights.
Batteries' struggle with jet propulsion
It's clear aviation needs to use green fuel, or at least find an alternative way to power aircraft through the sky that does not emit CO2, NOx, contrails, and particulates.
Dr Michael Winters, Principal Fellow Advanced Technology at Pratt & Whitney, isn’t convinced, comparing the situation right now to a perfect storm:
"On the one side, we have large new fleets with new engines and aircraft introduced into the market, learning their way towards better dependability. At the same time, we're coming out of COVID and the workforce is limited in capacity and hence the supply chain is limited in capacity.”
Green fuel is a nice idea, but the Power-to-X technology converting alternative energy into liquid fuel is still at a nascent stage. Denmark's target to produce enough green hydrogen to fuel all its domestic flights by 2030 illustrates the gigantic scale that would be needed to power all aircraft in the future.
Likewise, lithium-ion batteries have a long way to go. Over the last decade they have enabled us to increasingly drive electric cars, scooters and bicycles – to the extent they power 1 percent of all passenger cars in Europe – but in order to power aircraft they need to be incredibly heavy. Testing began in 2019, but no major strides have been made yet.
- Labour needs: Today and in the future
- Not enough spare parts
- Hands-on approach preferred to tech
- Slow sustainability efforts
- Traceability still not good enough
Good vibrations on maiden flight
The potential of hydrogen-electric engines is so great that an ambitious timeline has already been drawn up.
'A hydrogen-electric engine can harness 60 times more energy than lithium-ion batteries – and for a significantly lower cost too.
In September this year, a 40-seater aircraft powered by a hydrogen electric engine took to the skies in the US state of Washington – a successful 15-minute flight carried out by Universal Hydrogen that reached a height of 3,500 metres and performed with greatly reduced noise and vibrations.
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