Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport

Re:Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chand... by taneq on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:12PM (#16881913)

Hydrogen is worse than electric on almost all fronts. Others here have covered the storage issues, but there's also the issue that generating hydrogen is very inefficient compared with just storing the electricity in batteries.

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Re:Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chand... by kristianp on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:23AM (#16882335)

And yet the japanese are still spending money on refuelling stations for hydrogen cars. I don't really understand it, given EVs are taking off by comparison.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/12/honda-toyota-hydrogen-fu...

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Re:Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chand... by taneq on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:44AM (#16882406)

Can't lose face, gotta double down.

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Re:Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chand... by alex_duf on Friday April 20, 2018 @08:50AM (#16884312)

I think in some narrow use cases it makes sense to use hydrogen.

There's this pilot program going on on a small Scottish Island where they use wind power on overproducing days to produce hydrogen.

That hydrogen is then use for their ferry.

I'm not a hydrogen proponent, far from it in fact, but it does have it's own place for local usages in case of overproduction.

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