aviation innovation. this week, lara looks at the elemental solution to cleaning up carbon emissions from aircraft. we travel to the remote faroe islands to look at the latest ways to harness tidal energy. it s sort of like kitesurfing, but on the water. if it moves, it s a controller paul s en route towards more accessible games. if ijust raise my eyebrows, i m making the carjump. and we look at how generative technology could revolutionise the moviegoing experience. it can make approximately 52 quintillion versions of the film. about 100,000 flights jet around the world every day. flying accounts for 2.5% of all carbon emissions. now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. now, there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re close to cracking it. pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission a
of the film. about 100,000 flights jet around the world every day. flying accounts for 2.5% of all carbon emissions. now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. now there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re close to cracking it. pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission aircraft. but how did we get here? archive: the new machine is called, optimistically, - the flyer. we ve come a long way since the wright brothers first flight in 1903. that day, they lifted the world into a new dimension. then we achieved bigger, faster planes. great, but that s also how we ended up with all these emissions. jet engines burn kerosene, which releases carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases causing climate change. the industry faces an enormous challenge to clean up its act, and that means comin
Different exercise . It is scalable until a certain power, but then well have to change technology. Getting this high Power Density System that will allow to have a lot of power, but minimal weight to be integrated on an aircraft is really a challenge. And that probably means completely redesigning the plane. Everything will be shrunk. Some parts of the engine, of the fuel cell, will be sitting inside of the nacelle, and also the storage tank, which is, uh, going to be probably the largest, uh, you know, piece of equipment they will actually bring outside, 0k . Right. So either on the side of the fuselage, or we will hang it on the wing. Making everything fit isnt the only challenge, though. You need to have the Maintenance And Repair organisation. The whole process needs to be certified. We need to provide the Hydrogen Infrastructure to the, uh, to the aircraft. Zeroavia has a plan for that
And Adrienne Murray has been to the remote Faroe Islands, which are between scotland and norway, to see what theyre doing to help harness renewable energy. Rugged and remote, the Faroe Islands are an isolated archipelago found in the north atlantic. Powerful Currents Flow around its 18 islands, and in this Sea Channel called the vestmannasund, Mechanical Creatures lurk beneath the waters surface, called dragons. Designed by Swedish Marine Energy firm minesto, its among a wave of new technology that hopes to revolutionise tidal power. This huge yellow thing behind me is a tidal kite. It looks a bit like a glider because its designed to fly through the water, and once its installed on the seabed, it will be
This is the challenge faced by zeroavia, one of several companies working to make hydrogen powered flight a reality. They retrofit existing planes with hydrogen engines. The company had several successful Test Flights with this plane last year. In the original frame, we would be able to fly about 19 passengers. It looks like a lot of kit in there. How would you fit in 19 people . Yeah, so in the retrofitted configuration, it will be about a dozen people. Daniela is one of the engineers working on the engine. Actually, the Fuel Cells are this one. The power is created in these small layers. So you have to build up your layers to create the power to take off an aircraft. This engine could almost provide enough power to get you from london to glasgow, but not quite. If you wanted to scale it up for international flights, would you just make the same thing bigger or is it a totally