>>1945374as well as the challenge of making a hydrogen plane, there's the logistical challenge of getting enough hydrogen. there are green ways to do it, sure, but a lot of oil companies are pushing the meme that you can make clean hydrogen fuel from oil. it's a hydrocarbon, right? split off the hydro bit for clean fuel and then store the carbon somewhere where it can't hurt anyone - with carbon capture or, if-and-when that doesn't work out, in the atmosphere.
as a way of getting carbon emissions down, sure, that would totally fail to fix the problem, but think of it this way: a lot of oil company investors are going to keep seeing returns on their investment even if petrol and Jet A are phased out. in the end, isn't that the most important thing?
