What Bjorn Fehrm thinks about climate change

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Aeronautical engineer, former fighter pilot and airline executive, now an analyst at Leeham Company writing the weekly Bjorn's Corner on aircraft economics and design. He works from an aircraft performance model and has spent years checking the arithmetic of electric, hybrid and hydrogen aviation projects against it.

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1. 2 Apr 2021

   Our readingA hybrid-electric airliner ends up heavier and more complex than the aircraft it replaces and delivers no fuel saving at all.

   Their wordsNow you have a carbon fuel burning aircraft that is more complex and heavier than the plane that it replaces, and if you do your sums carefully, you find that there are no fuel efficiency gains and, therefore, no environmental gains.

   ↗Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of hydrogen. Part 31. Wrap-up: Where we standleehamnews.com 2nd of 3 in this piece