Additive Idiocy Is Common In Hype-Filled Bad Investments

In the quest for funding, entrepreneurs and hype artists often devolve into buzzwords, hoping that some magic combination of syllables will unlock the dragon’s treasure. Sometimes it even works. When it does, it just sucks money out of investors’ or governmental pockets, throws it into a whirling maw of incompetent or misguided engineers, and delivers nothing of any interest or value. What triggered this brief walkthrough is lots of euros being thrown at a supersonic hydrogen aircraft by the Spanish government, specifically the Ministry of Science’s Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial with the support of the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). As a reminder, both faster than the speed of sound passenger travel and hydrogen for aviation are in the sexy but impractical quadrant of my <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/06/sexy-unsexy-practical-impractical-aviation-aerospace-should-always-be-sexy-but-real-solutions-often-arent/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">aviation and aerospace grid</a>. Supersonic because there’s a vanishingly small market for absurdly expensive and wasteful very high speed passenger travel for the 0.001%, and because Boom Supersonic is already failing miserably to deliver in that space despite almost $150 million in funding — about 100 times less than is required — with no one willing to build them an engine. And <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/08/batteries-biofuels-not-aluminum-hydrogen-will-fuel-the-airlines-of-the-near-future-part-1/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">hydrogen</a> because even NASA has serious challenges with liquid hydrogen, there’s no world in which putting liquid hydrogen facilities on every major airport is remotely viable, and 20° above absolute zero liquid hydrogen in the fuselage with warm-blooded human beings is uncertifiable. <a href="https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/additive-idiocy-is-common-in-hype-filled-bad-investments-a5495b5ceee6">Visit Now</a>