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In the automotive world, batteries are quickly becoming the energy source of the future. For heavier-duty tasks, though, they simply don’t cut the mustard. Their energy density, being a small fraction of that of liquid fuels, just can’t get the job done. In areas like these, hydrogen holds some promise as a cleaner fuel of the future, says a report from the World Platinum Investment Council.
Universal Hydrogen hopes that hydrogen will do for aviation what batteries can’t. The company has been developing flight-ready fuel cells for this exact purpose and has begun test flights towards that very goal.
Last week marked a huge milestone in the history of hydrogen flight. It's the Lightning McClean, a 40-passenger regional airliner powered by hydrogen fuel cells that took flight. Powered by sunshine, emitting nothing but water... Green hydrogen is the quintessential forever fuel.
Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough&Polished
