Hydrogen is great, particularly in aerospace. If the ground work takes place, we can plug into that infrastructure - it has 3x more energy p/kg than fossil fuels. Way lighter than batteries which means more useful load.
I always wonder what the enforcement mechanism on these promises are. I also suspect a lot of this type of stuff ends up as brownfields pretty quickly. They may be the lucky ones, that don’t limp along as unwanted, embarrassing, money-sucking subsidiaries for too long.
Or maybe all these promises just give the buying government some form of trading chits for when the obvious unsuitability of the proposals become apparent.
I would love to see the government scoresheet on this project, and I still think the downside of having to mollify the losing bid will be epic.
The follow-up on ITBs does take place. The Lockheed Martin $9.5 million support for the engines of an Air Inuit B737 just recently announced was part of the offset package for the C130Js under a DND contract signed in 2007.
Hydrogen is great, particularly in aerospace. If the ground work takes place, we can plug into that infrastructure - it has 3x more energy p/kg than fossil fuels. Way lighter than batteries which means more useful load.
I always wonder what the enforcement mechanism on these promises are. I also suspect a lot of this type of stuff ends up as brownfields pretty quickly. They may be the lucky ones, that don’t limp along as unwanted, embarrassing, money-sucking subsidiaries for too long.
Or maybe all these promises just give the buying government some form of trading chits for when the obvious unsuitability of the proposals become apparent.
I would love to see the government scoresheet on this project, and I still think the downside of having to mollify the losing bid will be epic.
The follow-up on ITBs does take place. The Lockheed Martin $9.5 million support for the engines of an Air Inuit B737 just recently announced was part of the offset package for the C130Js under a DND contract signed in 2007.