“Joby took a pre-production prototype of one of its battery-electric aircraft and outfitted it with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank and fuel system. The modified, hydrogen-powered VTOL was able to complete a 523 mile flight above Marina, California…”
“Joby took a pre-production prototype of one of its battery-electric aircraft and outfitted it with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank and fuel system. The modified, hydrogen-powered VTOL was able to complete a 523 mile flight above Marina, California…”
It’s an investment opportunity. A futuristic green washed technology with fantastical data that sounds like a great idea to ignorant optimist.
“Personal flight is better that fossil fuels”. Nonsense! I guarantee that it is less harmful to drive around in a tractor than to fly around in a “zero-emission” taxi-plane.
This will never take off.
I see what you did there.
Please do explain how is less harmful to drive in a diesel tractor around.
You kinda should like nothing I say will persuade you, but here it goes.
A tractor is bought and paid for, so to say. It’ll only emit as much as you put into it. Where as with a hover-cab, before you get to theoreticaly use zoro-emission fuel, you first have to make it. I.e. digging up and smelting rare metals, shipping parts all over the world and churning them out in coal-burning factories.
You’ll be dead before your tractor catches up the starting costs.
This sounds almost like tractors are born in a shed, not made in a factory.
Not so much and less with newer battery types
Again, see first comment. Out of curiosity, what are coal-burning factories anyway?
While tractors are relatively cheap, you fail to see all the disadvantages with them it seems. Like fuel grows in a fuel pump stations and I’m sure they are very beneficial to air you breath, not counting co2 emissions and many other negative aspects. Let’s do a test. I’ll lie down next to e-vehicle exhaust and you’ll do the same next to a tractor exhaust or any other ICE vehicle of your choice. Let’s do that for 5 minutes while engines are running.
Yea. I called it.
Your drinking the coolaid, man.
Anyone who tells you that the answer is to buy their product is lying to you. The answer is to consume less not more.
And how are we doing with consuming less? Oh, wait, I know - consumption of oil and coal is at all time high.