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Why Hydrogen-Powered Planes Will Beat Electric Planes

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With 4.5 billion passenger trips taken each year and more than 16 million planes taking off annually in the U.S. alone, aircraft are responsible for 2.5% of global CO2 emissions, and the problem is growing. But there could be a solution that rivals the power of fossil fuels without the negatives – hydrogen. Aircraft giant, Airbus, is exploring the technology, as well as new startups, ZeroAvia and Universal Hydrogen. CNBC explores hydrogen planes and whether they could fix aviation’s emissions problem.

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00:00 — Introduction
02:17 — Hydrogen in aviation
04:16 — Companies
09:17 — Challenges

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  1. @53022347

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Brazil has the Macaúba tree that produces 8 to 10 times more biodiesel (6/8,000 liters/ha) than soybeans or sunflowers. This biodiesel in the refinery is transformed into aviation biokerosene.
    If Brazil's 130 million hectares of degraded pastures were reforested, they would produce more than 1 trillion liters of diesel fuel per year. Africa can also produce as much with its 300 million hectares available.

  2. @53022347

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Even USP in Brazil made a hydrogen reformer.
    Highly polluting as it uses rare metals that need to move millions of tons of soil and forests. Congo has 58% mined by children under a semi-slave regime.
    Where are they going to get 10 more Congos to explore?

  3. @leechjim8023

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Fossil fuel hydrogen!? FUBAR!!!☹️👎 Defeats the whole purpose!

  4. @crackerbrick1903

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Youd have to be brain dead to fly electric…

  5. @ValidatingUsername

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Imagine the release of gas was sent through a generator that reduced its "braking" capacity relative to the pressure left 😂😊

  6. @isaacennison7678

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    The main issue is the production of hydrogen. The conventional method of hydrogen production involving the use of methane and fossil fuels ends up producing CO2 as a byproduct. The alternative method of using electrolysis of water is very expensive and a net energy sinking process because the amount to energy required to split water is higher than the amount of energy released in burning hydrogen if the efficiency of the entire process is taken into account.

  7. @user-jw6jl7li8y

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Why are they not using Metal Hydrides???" MgH2 is safe, does not require compression, and stores more energy than both gas or liquid. They could also have on onboard electrolysis to produce added hydrogen while in flight!

  8. @marcelomay4561

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Hydrogen is clearly not the answer. Aviation is doomed.

  9. @bansheebones5726

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    By 2050??, whats the delay? huh huh…

  10. @user-cw1fx2bw1e

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    If electric planes want to beat hydrogen-powered planes then they should've start research about a megawatt battery. Ion battery use lithium or sodium, what will happens if a proton battery or neutron battery exist? Are they using nano composite?

  11. @andremota247

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    create a hydrogen factory on space using solar energy and space mining, pollution ,lack of resources ,war ,personal interest GONE FOR GOOD ,there's is abundance of everything we need in space, we just have to design a space factory XD

  12. @einundsiebenziger5488

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Each and every liquid-fuel-powered plane will beat any electrically-powered plane. By capacity/weight ratio, batteries are more than 50 times heavier than jet fuel. Only small, single-engine propeller planes are light enough to fly on electricity. If you want to transport multiple passengers fast and far, fuel-powered jet engines are the only way to go. Using hydrogen for this is waste of energy, though. Remember, hydrogen is not a primary source of energy. You first have to extract it from water or natural gas, which requires more energy than the hydrogen will ever be able to deliver.

  13. @chi-jenyang9752

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    While hydrogen planes will beat electric planes, jet fuel planes will beat hydrogen planes.

  14. @Atipat12

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    AMAZING !!!!

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  15. @Atipat12

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

  16. @Atipat12

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

  17. @plumberphil5321

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Y'all ride in it first

  18. @j0edynamite

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    As im watching this im realizing hmm i wonder what safely moves large quantities of people everyday without all the risks of all this new technology. i think china did something like that, cant put my finger on it…..

  19. @yehonatanroth9467

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    hydrogen in the sky! what could go wrong…

  20. @robbylianto6756

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Why Hydrogen fuel for aviation? Yess no way that battery electric vehicles able to heavy loaded carrier .

  21. @TransformerVolumeC

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Definitely this is the future, (green hydrogen derived ) liquid methanol fuel to fuel methanol fuel cell (and then electric motor without battery with way longer range and "rechargable" by refueling liquid methanol in just a minute just like any diesel engine. This is the future, better than "normal hydrogen" because methanol is a liquid fuel directly and easy derived from green hydrogen and way better usable than hydrogen because no need compression pressure storage and or ultra low temperature needed. Methanol liquid room temperature fuel is just a drop replacements in any gas station with little modification and same happens even with combustion engine but obviously fuel cell Ev gives more efficiency .

  22. @themusicgaragetmg2330

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Would you believe it if you were told they've already had this tech but the fossil fuel lobby and it's industry leaders squashed this so they could continue to poison and plunder this world so they could get a pretty penny… Stupidity at it's finest.

  23. @jozsefveres9532

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    At these times worth to invest in Hydrogen market.

  24. @StanTrnik

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Hydrogen powered airplanes will no beat electric planes, because they are also electric planes (facepalm).

  25. @adrianocerrat2269

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    this is gonna be it

  26. @53022347

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Hydrogen is five times lighter than gasoline and has twice the energy per kg.
    The hydrogen on the plane will need a tank five times bigger to do the same thing as kerosene

  27. @josephgardner5891

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    remember no more carbohydrates on Venus or con men using the media to pull off great cons that turn into movies like, Hoax, with richard gere. its time news people take responsibility for a habit of getting things wrong. so much wrong people are in one way or another harmed. either wise up or get another job. fools shouldn't report things they can't understand.

  28. @josephgardner5891

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    burning hydrogen creates the same problems different cause. hydrogen + air, not just oxygen, creates greenhouse gases with greater greenhouse effects. don't hypw more problems just research your stories with more brains than personality. dead people accept everyone, even spin doctors leading the way for crimes again humanity and the rest of the world lack of future population.

  29. @sr4087

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Burnin coal to make hydrogen 😂😂😂

  30. @alexayounginsong2641

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    will beat fossil fuel not EVs

  31. @appomattoxross6751

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    It takes an enormous amount of electricity to create hydrogen. Doh!!

  32. @AdamSpenceronsno

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    The numbers are way off, it's like 80%+ . To prove this put die blue nontoxic fuel like they do in testing at LAX one day. Hydrogen is not the answer. Super high-speed rail on the continents, across the ocean Flying wings 10x the size of the current craft, that transports thousand of AirPods hanging on the wing. The cost to compress Hydrogen into the environment creates more carbon emissions than using jet fuel. The problem is why do a person need to fly to some other location. For many thousands of years, we existed without aircraft or any advanced tech. Why don't people understand they are being used just like pigs to create wealth for a few. Stay home enjoy life with your family, don't fall into the trap life is better in Qatar.

  33. @jjj2856

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    seems like Elon Musk was pretty dumb when he dismissed hydrogen for energy storages

  34. @user-tb8hz8qr1q

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Những phương tiện hàng không tốc độ cao rất cần thiết cho nhu cầu thu hoạch kiến thức trí tuệ ngoài không gian hay lắm, cảm ơn video chia sẻ của bạn chúc bạn sức khỏe và hạnh phúc.

  35. @maxshiraz3447

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Conventional fuel is the only sane solution, for aviation or cars. Anything else is a ridiculous fantasy.

  36. @rioverde480

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Has no one heard of the hindenburg???? 🤷🏾

  37. @derickrk

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    isn't water vapour a green house gas? Also isn't most of hydrogen produced from fossil fuel ?

  38. @GarretKrampe

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    What I HAVE TO LAUGH AT is that during COVID the CO2 and green house temps went up DESPITE the total lack of cars and planes ! WTF is going on ? Propaganda of the elites ! That is what .. kick them out of your government ! BAN LOBYING

  39. @KrisGT

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Burning hydrogen still produces NO2, which is toxic…like how they leave that out?

  40. @reggievonramstein

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    The source of the explanation as tho why hydrogen will beat batteries for aviation seems to be “trust me bro”

  41. @JohnSmith-pn2vl

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    ahahahaha, i believe it when i see it, the boomer gen is brainwashed with hydrogen.
    now the key question, why would anyone use this over conventional ?

    to pay more for less? yea, not gonna happen, ever.

  42. @AmySteve2008

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Because they "float" right 😀

  43. @HillOrStream

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Except very little "Green" H2 exists, cheaper to make it from Methane so thats what is done.

  44. @Bernard-fo2qo

    December 18, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    What about the high cost of platinum in the use of hydrogen? Flammability? Compressibility and leakage? High cost of making hydrogen? Give it up.

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