Comments on: Hypersonic Hydrogen Airliner Gets Funding For R&D http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/ EcoDevelopments you can use and invest in. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:09:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Biotele http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Biotele Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:11:09 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-526 Hydrogen can be produced by simply adding water to activated aluminum. http://www.instructables.com/id/SODA-CAN-HYDROGEN-GENERATOR/ Hydrogen can be produced by simply adding water to activated aluminum.

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]]> By: carpool guy http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-422 carpool guy Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:37:39 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-422 hm, cant relly belive how this think can take off with this small wings at the picture. and there would be only time for 1 in-flight movie :( hm, cant relly belive how this think can take off with this small wings at the picture. and there would be only time for 1 in-flight movie :(

]]> By: Gizmo Logs | Latest Gadget Update http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Gizmo Logs | Latest Gadget Update Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:11:17 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-370 [...] [Source: Ecotality Life] [...] [...] [Source: Ecotality Life] [...]

]]> By: Fast Plane: Mach 8 Hydrogen Hypersonic Airliner on the Drawing Board http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Fast Plane: Mach 8 Hydrogen Hypersonic Airliner on the Drawing Board Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:11:15 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-368 [...] The trick here is to develop a special engine they're calling Scimitar, capable of thrusting the craft to those rocket-like speeds. It will be a rocket engine with a turbo compressor added, without needing liquid oxygen like those used in the boosters that send spacecraft into orbit. Such an engine is also capable of slower flight, allowing the aircraft to fly over land where supersonic speeds aren't permitted because of sonic booms. The researchers are proposing a big plane, too. Check out the A2's size next to the gigantic Airbus A380 in the graphic above. This A2 hyperliner is big enough for 300 passengers, and the engineers are hoping to make it cost-effective enough for tickets to ride on the huge plane to cost about the same as a normal business class seat does today. [The Register, via Ecotality Life] [...] [...] The trick here is to develop a special engine they’re calling Scimitar, capable of thrusting the craft to those rocket-like speeds. It will be a rocket engine with a turbo compressor added, without needing liquid oxygen like those used in the boosters that send spacecraft into orbit. Such an engine is also capable of slower flight, allowing the aircraft to fly over land where supersonic speeds aren’t permitted because of sonic booms. The researchers are proposing a big plane, too. Check out the A2’s size next to the gigantic Airbus A380 in the graphic above. This A2 hyperliner is big enough for 300 passengers, and the engineers are hoping to make it cost-effective enough for tickets to ride on the huge plane to cost about the same as a normal business class seat does today. [The Register, via Ecotality Life] [...]

]]> By: Adam http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Adam Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:32:12 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-366 Nice dream, but it's difficult to see this ever coming to fruition without developing economical ways of manufacturing and distributing hydrogen (the same problem exists with all hydrogen-based transport proposals). Nice dream, but it’s difficult to see this ever coming to fruition without developing economical ways of manufacturing and distributing hydrogen (the same problem exists with all hydrogen-based transport proposals).

]]> By: John http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-365 John Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:01:23 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-365 How carbon-friendly is electrolysis, exactly? Surely isolating hydrogen by electrolysis takes massive amounts of electricity? How carbon-friendly is electrolysis, exactly? Surely isolating hydrogen by electrolysis takes massive amounts of electricity?

]]> By: abovethelies http://ecotality.com/life/2007/10/24/hypersonic-hydrogen-airliner-gets-funding-for-rd/comment-page-1/#comment-364 abovethelies Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:47:10 +0000 http://ecotality.com/life/?p=1063#comment-364 Sweet, don't care how fast it goes, just interesting that it runs on hydrogen. Sweet, don’t care how fast it goes, just interesting that it runs on hydrogen.

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