Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard is leading a team to build Climate Impulse, a hydrogen-powered plane aiming to fly non-stop around the world.
The main difficulty is preserving the liquid hydrogen’s state at an extremely low temperature, nearing absolute zero, for the entire nine-day flight.A team in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France, led by Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard, is building a hydrogen-powered aircraft called Climate Impulse.
Notably, Piccard is renowned for his pioneering flights around the world in a balloon and a solar-powered plane called Solar Impulse. However, he asserts that solar-powered planes are “not practical for commercial aviation.” For this, the team has been working on creating “revolutionary” thermal tanks that can maintain the fuel’s state during the entire flight.
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