Innovators gear up work on 'green' hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

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Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

AP & MSN | JAMEY KEATEN and MUSTAKIM HASNATH | 2/13/2025

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about climate change but held little promise of revolutionizing air travel.

Now, the 66-year-old Swiss adventurer behind Solar Impulse is aiming higher, in hopes of heading toward greener commercial flight than that of fossil fuel-powered planes today — this time using super-cold liquid hydrogen.



From a workshop on France's Atlantic coast, Piccard and partners are ramping up Climate Impulse, a project started last February to fly a two-seater plane around the globe nonstop over nine days fueled by what's known as green hydrogen. That's hydrogen split out of water molecules using renewable electricity through a process called electrolysis.

The Climate Impulse team, whose backers include Airbus and a science incubator called Syensqo (pronounced “science-co”) born from Belgian pharmaceuticals company Solvay, presented its first-year progress to reporters Thursday in Les Sables d’Olonne, an oceanside town better known as host to the Vendee Globe round-the-world sailing race...more
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1. The planet is in flames, falling into fascism, and still we have bourgeois boys playing uselessly with a useless...

...scheme to greenwash fossil fuels by rebranding them as "hydrogen."

Half a century of evoking this scheme to waste energy as if it is "green" - it isn't and never will be - should make it clear that wherever it is hyped, energy and wealth are being wasted.

I consider that the only thing this toy should evoke is disgust.