{"id":113259,"date":"2020-09-21T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/airbus-unveils-three-designs-for-hydrogen-powered-planes"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T21:22:21","slug":"airbus-unveils-three-designs-for-hydrogen-powered-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/airbus-unveils-three-designs-for-hydrogen-powered-planes","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Unveils Three Designs for Hydrogen-Powered Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/airbus-unveils-three-designs-for-hydrogen-powered-planes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A third \u2014 the most out-there among the three \u2014 is designed to seat 200 passengers. The concept merges the wings with the main body, creating a massive open space. \u201cThe exceptionally wide fuselage opens up multiple options for hydrogen storage and distribution, and for cabin layout,\u201d an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/en\/2020\/09\/airbus-reveals-new-zeroemission-concept-aircraft.html\">Airbus statement<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus is hoping to drum up excitement around the idea of powering the planes of tomorrow using hydrogen gas. \u201cThe transition to hydrogen, as the primary power source for these concept planes, will require decisive action from the entire aviation ecosystem,\u201d Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly believe that the use of hydrogen \u2014 both in synthetic fuels and as a primary power source for commercial aircraft \u2014 has the potential to significantly reduce aviation\u2019s climate impact,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third \u2014 the most out-there among the three \u2014 is designed to seat 200 passengers. The concept merges the wings with the main body, creating a massive open space. \u201cThe exceptionally wide fuselage opens up multiple options for hydrogen storage and distribution, and for cabin layout,\u201d an Airbus statement reads. Airbus is hoping to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}