Brillemeister

Upsilon

Nothing is going to be a quick fix, its going to take decades and a ton more research to address these issues. Hopefully we have the time and somewhere will find the will needed ;)

DaiMacculate

By further elaborating on your argument that jet travel is by large a useless luxury and that people should accept slower travel to help civilization as whole, couldn't the same be said for the automobile? By accepting slower travel we could eliminate this entire fuel issue. Let me be the first to suggest that we park our cars and buy a carriage and a couple trusty steeds. Without the automobile, we no longer have a dependency on oil and gas. Without a dependency on oil and gas, all the money tied up in wars, politics, and researching alternate fuel is freed up for other things like education and finding a cure for cancer. We may be onto something. It turns out the secret to world piece and eternal happiness is getting rid of any useless luxury that uses gasoline.

brian8655

Because all it's going to do is bring us into another money wasting situation in the future just like we are for gas right now. People will have to waste a ton of money again to convert from there hydrogen car to a pure electric car.

Just skip the damn Hydrogen and work on Electric. It's common sense.

Kakkoister

Yes but that is slowly changing. There have been a lot of major break through's in battery technology that have happened in the past few years. That will bring massive amount's of electrical storage into small spaces.

We shouldn't be working on creating a Hydrogen powered future is what I'm saying. We should be working on an Electric powered future. Designing better electric engines and batteries instead of designing better Hydrogen engines.

And many electric cars you get this days can drive quite a long time before needed a recharge.

Kakkoister

We have to make some sacrifices to retain the majority of our civilization and technology, is all I'm saying. Jet Travel is a useless luxury for most of its users, and thats just all their is to it. Its not the only major thing we need to change, its just one of many.

DaiMacculate

chaoslink

Whyaduck

Amuro

DaiMacculate

Yes, there are things that are time-sensitive and need jet travel, not to mention military needs, but I feel safe in predicting 75% of domestic air travelers would be just fine with cheaper tickets and longer flights, especially in light of the new fees being levied because of rising fuel costs.

DaiMacculate

I wonder if this was the first test flight undertaken where the pilot wore flip-flops and a hemp shirt? (J/K)

av8thor

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

RebootEDC

MACPollo

Jesus Diaz

FritzLaurel

"Liquid hydrogen has to be stored at minus 424 degrees F (minus 253 C). While lighter, it also takes up far more space than regular jet fuel. Airplanes would have to be redesigned to accommodate it."

"Also, since hydrogen occurs mainly in combination with other elements, such as water, it's costly and takes a great deal of energy to produce it."

bbfreak

So you are for La Ribera... I should have guessed. Rioja rules!

MACPollo

mikail511

We need to work towards just using electricity to power our vehicles and not using electricity to make another fuel to power a vehicle.

Kakkoister

We can already fly planes on pure Electricity...Why waste electricity making hydrogen and then using the hydrogen to power the plane... So ridiculous.

Kakkoister

sikantis

LOLLYJOLLY

This clip was totally ripped off from my Microsoft Flight Simulator 15 from the year 2012.

I'm running a 512 terahertz CPU with 4 exabytes of RAM, and Word for Windows still comes up slowly, and hard drives are for losers in 2012 BTW.

Anexio

barfoo

Skeptical_Geezer

ittekimasu

Technogen

Technogen

greggantic

A question would by why would you want to replace the APU?
Existing APU's run off the same fuel as the primary engines, feed off the same fuel tanks and are proven reliable.

Notcynicalanymore