The Evolution of the Energy Systems and the Aircraft Industry
Marchetti, C., 1980 Chemical Economy and Engineering Review , May:7--13 Abstract The driving force for evolution, in the Darwinian sense, are the changes in the external physical conditions and of the biological context. The aircraft industry, so alert and dynamic, senses that important changes are coming and tries to preselect the proper mutation toface them.
The scope of this paper is to draw a long-term picture of the energy system, technology and aircraft evolution, and to try to evaluate, by meshing the three, the necessity and the chances of a LH2 fueled commercial airplane.
The conclusions are essentially positive, although — as we shall see — the logic and the arguments substantially differ from the ones in the current literature.
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