Vertical Take-Off Air Taxis Are A Solution In Search Of A Problem (Part 2)
Some of the eVTOLs will end up in billionaire’s stables, along with their other rarely used toys such as Bugattis, but they can afford to be frivolous.
Some of the eVTOLs will end up in billionaire’s stables, along with their other rarely used toys such as Bugattis, but they can afford to be frivolous.
Battery-electric aviation will be over 50% of flights by 2070, and approaching 100% by 2100. Aviation-related warming will be under a third of 2019 levels by 2060, and drop to close to zero by 2100. In 80 years, flygskam will be a thing of the past.
For commodities traders, businesses, strategists, and policy makers, I would recommend being very leery of most of the market analyses currently extant for aviation fuels.
Hydrogen is a very expensive alternative, so other options that are less expensive and have equal or better characteristics are going to dominate.
United Airlines cuts to the rapid decarbonization mustard: tree planting offsets good, zero emission electric airplanes gooder.
Green hydrogen stakeholders, such as the Bill Gates outfit Breakthrough Energy Ventures, are eager to see the new ZeroAvia hydrogen fuel cell airplane get off the ground.
There’s a $120 billion global hydrogen industry that we have to kick the fossil fuel companies out of. 3-4% of global petroleum use is for long-haul shipping and aviation. About 8% of CO2e emissions globally are from steelmaking. That’s more than enough for CleanTechnica to report on. Boosterism for hydrogen outside of those spaces is just perpetuating the wrong industry.
Long-haul aviation is a hard global warming nut to crack, and assessing methanol as a potential nutcracker shows why.
Flight-shaming begone: US aircraft startup ZeroAvia ramps up plans for zero emission green hydrogen fuel cell flight.
Tidal wave of green hydrogen investment spoils Trump oil and gas legacy — and wait, whatever happened to all your coal jobs?