The company presented three conceptual designs for emission-free machines under the common code name "Zeroe" on its website. These are a turbine-powered machine and a propeller-powered machine, as well as a V-shaped aircraft whose wings merge into the fuselage. The concepts should help to research and develop a feasible design for the "first climate-neutral, emission-free passenger aircraft", Faury is quoted as saying.
Macron: "France, land of innovation"
This requires investments in the double-digit billion range. France's powerful economics and finance minister Bruno Le Maire announced in an interview at the beginning of the month that the country wanted to invest seven billion euros in hydrogen technology in the long term.
After the Airbus announcement, President Emmanuel Macron already spoke of "France, the country of innovation". In order to be able to use such a technology in the future, however, "significant infrastructure for transporting and refueling hydrogen" is necessary, according to the company. This must be implemented at airports, and the key to this is government support.
Hydrogen is an important building block for a climate-friendly energy supply. Because no greenhouse gases are produced when it is used. However, in order to produce it, water must first be split into hydrogen and oxygen with great energy expenditure. This is only climate-friendly if electricity with no or only minimal greenhouse gas emissions is used during generation, for example from the sun or wind.