{"id":132452,"date":"2021-12-15T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hydrogen-airships-promise-zero-emissions-at-quarter-the-price-of-plane-cargo"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:42:20","slug":"hydrogen-airships-promise-zero-emissions-at-quarter-the-price-of-plane-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hydrogen-airships-promise-zero-emissions-at-quarter-the-price-of-plane-cargo","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Airships Promise Zero Emissions at Quarter the Price of Plane Cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-airships-promise-zero-emissions-at-quarter-the-price-of-plane-cargo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They could be \u201ccritical in the fight against climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A California-based startup called H2 Clipper wants to resurrect the hydrogen-filled airship as a form of mass transport. The key difference is that it won\u2019t be transporting people, it will be transporting cargo, a press statement reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The company aims to kickstart a green global cargo network by leveraging the world\u2019s renewed willingness to try alternative forms of transport following the IPCC\u2019s dire climate change report for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>H2 Clipper claims its cargo airships can carry 8\u201310 times the payload of the best cargo plane over 6,000 miles (9,656 km), and it can do so at a quarter of the price. They will have a payload capacity of approximately 340,000 lb (150,000 kg) sitting in up to 265,000 cubic feet (7,530 cubic meters) of cargo space.<\/p>\n<p>As for speed, the H2 Clipper would travel at a cruising speed of 175 mph (282 km\/h), meaning it would move close to ten times faster than a cargo ship \u2014 though it would obviously lag behind a cargo plane in that department. The main advantage over today\u2019s cargo planes is that the H2 Clipper produces zero carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They could be \u201ccritical in the fight against climate change.\u201d A California-based startup called H2 Clipper wants to resurrect the hydrogen-filled airship as a form of mass transport. The key difference is that it won\u2019t be transporting people, it will be transporting cargo, a press statement reveals. The company aims to kickstart a green global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132452","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}