{"id":139548,"date":"2022-05-18T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ultra-light-liquid-hydrogen-tanks-promise-to-make-jet-fuel-obsolete"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:19:33","slug":"ultra-light-liquid-hydrogen-tanks-promise-to-make-jet-fuel-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ultra-light-liquid-hydrogen-tanks-promise-to-make-jet-fuel-obsolete","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks promise to make jet fuel obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-light-liquid-hydrogen-tanks-promise-to-make-jet-fuel-obsolete2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A revolutionary cryogenic tank design promises to radically boost the range of hydrogen-powered aircraft \u2013 to the point where clean, fuel-cell airliners could fly up to four times farther than comparable planes running on today\u2019s dirty jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Weight is the enemy of all things aerospace \u2013 indeed, hydrogen\u2019s superior energy storage per weight is what makes it such an attractive alternative to lithium batteries in the aviation world. We\u2019ve written before about <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/hypoint-basf-hydrogen-fuel-cell\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">HyPoint\u2019s turbo air-cooled fuel cell technology<\/a>, but its key differentiator in the aviation market is its <i>enormous<\/i> power density compared with traditional fuel cells. For its high power output, it\u2019s extremely lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it seems HyPoint has found a similarly-minded partner that\u2019s making similar claims on the fuel storage side. Tennessee company Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories (GTL) has been working for many years now on developing ultra-lightweight cryogenic tanks made from graphite fiber composites, among other materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revolutionary cryogenic tank design promises to radically boost the range of hydrogen-powered aircraft \u2013 to the point where clean, fuel-cell airliners could fly up to four times farther than comparable planes running on today\u2019s dirty jet fuel. Weight is the enemy of all things aerospace \u2013 indeed, hydrogen\u2019s superior energy storage per weight is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139548","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=139548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}