First manned flight using hydrogen battery doesn't cause rain, only tears
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James @ Apr 4th 2008 8:36AM
Chocolate Rain!
Tay Zonday FTW
bartoron @ Apr 4th 2008 8:39AM
IT'S GON' RAIN!
- the great Ollie Williams
Mark @ Apr 4th 2008 8:53AM
apple sucks.
Patriks7 @ Apr 4th 2008 9:01AM
nah.. we will see the iPlane Hydrogen Pro.. it will be very revolutionary and will sport an iPod and a MacBook Air.. dont worry the price wont be cheap ;)
Kizorblade @ Apr 4th 2008 9:58AM
I see... absolutely no mention of Apple in it.
RVerriotto @ Apr 4th 2008 9:10AM
One word.... cool!
Bruno @ Apr 4th 2008 9:13AM
[import antigravity]
...
Damn that only works in the comics. http://xkcd.com/353/
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 1:39PM
is it me or is this xkcd thing almost literally an overnight intartubez sensation?
JLTate @ Apr 4th 2008 9:13AM
I'm not sure I'd want to fly in Boeing's "Phantom World". Currently I'm happy with the ones that video games take me to.
Wait... Phantom Planet? Hmm...
Bk7 @ Apr 4th 2008 9:19AM
gotta start somewhere..
fanman @ Apr 4th 2008 9:38AM
Yeah, but you'll have to take it to them to refuel ;)
fanman @ Apr 4th 2008 9:39AM
Why isn't reply working today? >:-/
Nick @ Apr 4th 2008 9:56AM
does this thing have an iPod dock?
Chris @ Apr 4th 2008 10:40AM
hydrogen power is a scam. it takes much more power to make than you can squeeze from it. until someone comes up with a better way to harvest hydrogen, it will not be a viable fuel source.
balderdash @ Apr 7th 2008 3:19AM
Not if it's being used in NUCLEAR FUSION!!!!
But I'd say it's being looked at more as a form of energy storage, not an energy source, and just because a technology isn't fully functional doesn't make it a scam. Nobody is forcing you to pay for it, this test was funded by a private organization.
Chris @ Apr 7th 2008 9:39AM
batteries are nearly twice as efficient at energy storage. the whole idea is a scam, and being "sold" to the public as a solution to fossil fuels, and it just simply isn't and never will be unless some dramatically different way of extracting hydrogen is found. Spend the research finding new ways to extract it, not trivial ways to burn it.
George Kirkaldie @ Apr 4th 2008 10:42AM
I like how they used another aircraft makers product and put their name on it. It's a Boeing, so use a 747.
The actual plane is a Diamond Aircraft HK36 motorglider. (Diamond make what we call "the flying sperm")
Abuzar @ Apr 4th 2008 11:13AM
Hey they lost, that's the way the world moves.
PC Tech Support Atlanta @ Apr 4th 2008 11:19AM
I don't understand the "only tears" bit.
Terry
Mike @ Apr 4th 2008 11:25AM
Really?
martin @ Apr 4th 2008 11:28AM
phantom planet? yeh i quite liked the theme to the oc aswell
InMyHumbleOpinion @ Apr 4th 2008 11:32AM
All due respect, you folks that say it costs much more for hydrogen fuel cell to work because it costs more to make it...you simply just don't get it. You've got to learn to look at the big picture. Yes, it does cost more, but as technology gets better, the costs will come down. Besides, what do you care? You're not the ones working on the solution, you're only complaining about it. Of course it'll be made better. You probably don't realize it, but the manufacture of cars was prohibitive, until somebody came along and made it cheaper. (Henry Ford)
The internet? You think it was a cheap thing to make? Yet, you use the very same vehicle today to complain about things. If it weren't for people who invented the internet (it was paid for by a Dept of Defense contract and of course as we have been told, invented by Al Gore), you couldn't complain here at all.
Remember how everybody complained about GPS's? It was so expensive to put those satellites in the space? Well, now even small school children will admit it's been very useful. You wanna complain about the fuel used? Just think how much more fuel would be used without so many people having GPS units in their cars.
Oh, then there was the telephone. Used to be, only a single store in a town would have a telephone...usually a drug store or a barber shop. Now, everybody has one, oftentimes, several.
As long as we're on the subject...what about eye glasses? You think the first one invented were cheap? Would you rather have people walking around blind because the technology was too expensive?
I could go on and on, but I think you (hopefully) get the point.
Quit your complaining and let technology do it's thing. In other words...shut the hell up and sit down. You have nothing to complain about.
If you insist on complaining, go complain to God...maybe he (or she) will listen...but I doubt it. After all, it was his idea for the people that work on inventing things to invent them in the first place.
nathan.wong @ Apr 4th 2008 11:42AM
I'd take the Katana any day...even the regular fuel version.
nathan.wong @ Apr 4th 2008 11:44AM
What's even more interesting is the Katana plane pictured isn't made by Boeing, but Diamond, unless they were bought out by Boeing.
kneeyogi @ Apr 4th 2008 12:08PM
Make it rain
- Adam "Pacman" Jones
Lowest Ranked @ Apr 4th 2008 12:24PM
Yeah, and the native Americans can thank the fat lazy white men who feed billions into their casinos annually.
Plus, no taxes!
rcappo @ Apr 4th 2008 1:15PM
Maybe it is Phantom Works.
http://www.boeing.com/phantom/
rcappo @ Apr 4th 2008 1:17PM
This was supposed to be a reply, it makes no sense now.
CE @ Apr 4th 2008 2:09PM
Idiots on parade:
"I like how they used another aircraft makers product and put their name on it."
"What's even more interesting is the Katana plane pictured isn't made by Boeing, but Diamond, unless they were bought out by Boeing."
Its just a company logo put onto a vehicle!
The test wasn't even about the aircraft, it was about the power source for the engine!
BigD145 @ Apr 4th 2008 3:31PM
Here's an idea: Get rid of commercial aircraft and you won't have to make fuel cells for them.
peachepe @ Apr 4th 2008 3:42PM
I vote for that :)
T-Bone @ Apr 4th 2008 3:50PM
It doesn't say "Phantom World", it says "Phantom Works". It is Boeing's advanced research department, much like Lockheed's Skunk Works.
Nathan B @ Apr 4th 2008 4:11PM
oh noes an escaped amish got on the internet
Loonie @ Apr 4th 2008 7:10PM
Brilliant. Now if only someone could solve that little problem of manufacturing hydrogen, we're laughing.
ujjawal @ Apr 5th 2008 1:30AM
This is the future!! slowly but surely we are moving into direction where fossil fuel will die down for direct use!! we have been seeing the advancements in automobiles for quite sometime it was high time that aviation industry caught up.. http://www.gadgetgyan.com
cckruger @ Apr 6th 2008 10:11AM
Anyone else notice that even the haters make this site all about Apple?
wardialer @ Apr 8th 2008 12:13AM
i think you missed an earlier story back in december 2007. as embarrassing as it is for boeing, a small company in france -- the APAME group had a plane up powered by batteries. 18-month project, funded by donations, the plane was up for 48 minutes vs. 23 minutes, made of wood, cloth, and dental floss vs... BOEING. hydrogen's a joke... quite wasting people's time!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/first-manned-flight-using-hydrogen-battery-creates-no-rain-only/#commentform
read the story. nice reporting engadget -- or lackthereof.
wardialer @ Apr 9th 2008 12:52PM
http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2007/12/kjk-link.html
posted the wrong link. looks like i wasted YOUR time instead.