Bertrand Piccard, avid explorer and climate change advocate, plans to make a full trip around the Earth in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. Planned for 2028, this trip would be the first nonstop zero-emission circumnavigation in human history.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-aircraft

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  1. IEEESpectrum on

    Piccard seems confident that hydrogen fuel is the way to go for the future of green transportation. With no emissions, silent motors, and better air quality, it seems exciting. What do you think?

  2. Wow, my brain broke. I went: “I’ve never heard of him, maybe he is the son of.. oh, right, nevermind.” Still cool, hope he makes it.

  3. Is he Jean-Luc’s great great great great great…. great great Grandfather?

  4. Franklin_le_Tanklin on

    Make it so!

    Brevity is art of wit.

    The holes natural enemy is the pile. The hole is deep, broad, and unassuming. The pile is large, proud and stands out. When they meet – its TOTAL ANNIHILATION

  5. JustSomeGuy556 on

    Hydrogen doesn’t have a realistic place as a “fuel” for the vast majority of applications.