“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…”

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Will check out, thanks!

    What are the advantages over compressed hydro on one side and metal hydride storage on the other?

    Also, if I understand right, that does not address the issues of conversion efficiency.

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      4 months ago

      So as far as I know, the benefit of LOHC is that compression/cooling is no longer required. Transporting/storing hydrogen becomes as easy as transporting any oil. There is an energy cost in the binding reaction, which is endothermic, but the unbinding reaction is exothermic so you get some of that energy back.

      Unless you mean some other conversion?