Universal Hydrogen plans to load modular hydrogen capsules like Amazon packages
Paul Eremenko · HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko · Oct 20, 2022 · at 14:18
Paul Eremenko, founder of Universal Hydrogen, describes the company's operating model to bypass airport pipeline construction by treating hydrogen as modular cargo.
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“So our idea was let's turn hydrogen into cargo instead of jet fuel, right? So let's put hydrogen in these modular capsules and move these modular capsules the same way we move Amazon packages, right? So let's move hydrogen through intermodal freight. And when that intermodal freight arrives at the airport, we're We use existing cargo handling infrastructure, existing cargo handling equipment that we have at the airport, and we deliver those hydrogen modules directly to the airplane. We plug them into the airplane. They become the primary fuel tank on the airplane.”
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