Electric jet engine motor? (2025 Update)

Obviously when you burn hydrogen you get water and yes if your source of electrolysis is hydroelectric there is practically no pollution. But hydroelectric is maxed out and supplemented with atomic energy, coal and gas fired generators. Wind and solar is only practical is some areas.

Burning hydrogen is somewhat more polluting than use in a fuel cell as byproducts like nitrogen oxides are avoided. I don't see a hyper-sonic plane driven by fans or propellers.

Fuel cells can use other sources than hydrogen like lpg or methanol which are easier to transport. Our state of DE got bamboozled by Bloom Energy in subsidizing their fuel cells for generation of our electricity by natural gas. These cells are less efficient than turbines burning the gas and are not pollution free throughout their life cycle.

Dihydrogen monoxide is really nasty stuff. It kills over 3500 people a year and 700 are children.

There have been numerous articles in the local paper. This might be most recent:

Ah, someone is awake on a Saturday morning... Actually the hydroperoxyl radical plays an important part in the photochemistry of ozone.

It does not make sense at that cost, but sometimes they discover ways to make that formerly $700 item for less than a buck.

It appears nobody but the politicians want to keep them on. There is a surcharge of maybe five bucks a month on our electric bills, Bloom has not brought the jobs it promised to the state and there is that pollution problem.

State also got hoodwinked on offshore windmill study that resulted in nothing and electric cars being manufactured at our old GM site.

Bloom is at our old Chrysler plant site. Maybe both auto plants may have been retained but the state joined other states with carbon limits and effectively chased out a lot of heavy industry. Car paint lines are responsible for most of their plant emissions.

Our only refinery was shut down and a friend in the EPA said our Dem Governor appeared gleeful. Then they discovered they chased out a lot of good jobs and the taxes that came with them and helped get the refinery reopened.

No, I really meant the hydroperoxyl radical. Honest. It's the answer to AOC's pollutants.