The US Navy has been investing in superconducting and cryogenic technology since the 1940’s when the Navy Research Lab published its first scientific article on the subject. Since then the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Sea Systems Command have worked towards developing applications of the technology including motors, generators, cables, and magnets. When designing such complex...
There is growing interest in superconducting technologies for large electric transport platforms such as electric aircraft and ships to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Superconducting technologies have high efficiency and power density, which are necessary to achieve the electrification of large transport platforms. Liquid hydrogen (LH2) fueled platforms...
Alternative families of propulsion fuels such as hydrogen, the liquified-petroleum-gas (LPG) family (methane, ethane, propane, butane, other), alcohols of hydrocarbons (methanol, ethanol, propanol, other), natural gas, biofuels, and other, are increasingly being considered for transportation industries and applications, including shipping, aerospace and rocket propulsion. And the cryo-cooled...
In 2022 the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) published the findings of the FlyZero project, which concluded that liquid hydrogen (LH2) is the most viable zero-carbon emission fuel with the potential to scale to larger aircraft. At the same time, the ATI published the UK aerospace technology strategy, Destination Zero, highlighting LH2 aircraft as one of the key pathways to enable the...
