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A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor ( www.popsci.com )

"Joby took a pre-production prototype of one of its battery-electric aircraft and outfitted it with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank and fuel system. The modified, hydrogen-powered VTOL was able to complete a 523 mile flight above Marina, California..."

Hedin ,

Hurry! Let's build up an industry around this useless luxury and then be confused as to why emissions keep rising even though everyone is frolicing around in zero-emission hover taxies.

It's the third world who is to blame. Damn developing countries. Stop supplying our demands!

Hedin ,

It's an investment opportunity. A futuristic green washed technology with fantastical data that sounds like a great idea to ignorant optimist.

"Personal flight is better that fossil fuels". Nonsense!
I guarantee that it is less harmful to drive around in a tractor than to fly around in a "zero-emission" taxi-plane.

This will never take off.

Hedin ,

You kinda should like nothing I say will persuade you, but here it goes.

A tractor is bought and paid for, so to say. It'll only emit as much as you put into it. Where as with a hover-cab, before you get to theoreticaly use zoro-emission fuel, you first have to make it. I.e. digging up and smelting rare metals, shipping parts all over the world and churning them out in coal-burning factories.

You'll be dead before your tractor catches up the starting costs.

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