Could planes run on Hydrogen Gas?

Question

This is rumoured. I specialise in designing electric cars, and renewable energized homes. I have never studied planes nor' the effects of Hydrogen Gas, so is this rumour a possible reality in the future? Is it our saviour from pollution by aircraft?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes, they can. Jet engines can run on liquid hydrogen just as well as ANY Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)., and in fact its safe than petroleum based fuel.

you also read the book "Hydrogen Aircraft Technology"

by G. Daniel Brewer, Brewer Daniel Brewer

Answer 2

The technology has been around now for years. Jet aircraft love the stuff. See wikipedia or hydrogennow.org

Answer 3

they could but it would be very very dangerous, what with the pressurized tanks needed, and the flammable nature of hydrogen

Answer 4

If you tried to use hydrogen gas, you wouldn't have an airplane.  You'd have a Zeppelin.

Liquid hydrogen is still very bulky compared to jet fuel (its density is about 1/7 that of water) and it would require a rather different aircraft design to hold enough.  I saw an artists's conception of a liquid-hydrogen airliner; it looked like an A380 double-decker, with the upper level devoted to liquid hydrogen tank.

Answer 5

No they could not,

Answer 6

Hydrogen is the most explosive gas on earth. I don't think it would be good to have a wreck in one.