Mad Miliband's Net Zero Economy To Be Kept Afloat By UK's Huge Reserves Of Comedy Gold!

The Bank of England may indeed have defaulted on its stocks of physical gold:

But fear not! Rachel From Accounts and Mad “Baldrick” Miliband have a cunning plan to keep the UK economy afloat by exploiting our massive reserves of 24-carat comedy gold! The latest example is the ludicrously hilarious hydrogen economy - a boom economy if ever there was one! In particular, the Net Zero aviation fuel con, where Reeves gets to open a Third runway at Heathrow and boast about growing the economy, whilst Mad Ed gets the chance to repeal the laws of physics and “ban them for good” - just like fracking.

Says the Telegraph:

The push to develop hydrogen-powered planes was once a key part of the aviation industry’s bid to eliminate carbon emissions. But in the last few weeks, it has fallen suddenly and dramatically out of favour.

The decline in hydrogen’s fortunes represents a potential setback for the UK, where British companies and the Government have invested [i.e. ‘spaffed up the wall’] hundreds of millions of pounds in the technology.

Hydrogen has been seen as a great source of hope for decarbonising aviation because of its abundance, clean burn and compatibility with current engines. Capable of being harvested from water, it can be put into ordinary jet turbines and releases only water vapour as a by-product when burned.

Europe’s aviation industry predicted hydrogen would power a fifth of all plane journeys by 2050 under plans drawn up in 2021 to reach net zero by the middle of the century.

However, despite its significant promise, hydrogen has proved far harder to harness commercially than first hoped.

For use in a plane it must be cooled to -250C to turn it into a liquid and then stored at that temperature on board. Making this work for commercial aviation has proved fiendishly difficult.

He said: “The architecture of a hydrogen plane is very different from the architecture of a SAF aircraft. If you want to carry enough hydrogen to have a decent range it has to be liquid.

“Even then it takes up more volume than kerosene and to keep it liquid you need to have it in a cryogenic tank and it cannot be distributed in the wings. So you have to build the architecture of the plane around the fact that it is going to be hydrogen.”

No, seriously, why wouldn’t you want to fly in an aircraft with a huge tank of compressed flammable gas strapped to the back? Hint: here’s what the FAA says about tiny compressed cylinders of non flammable CO2 and oxygen carried aboard commercial flights:

For those of us familiar with the laws of physics, we note that the ambient air pressure at commercial aircraft cruise height is much less than it is at the surface, putting even more strain on any container transporting stored compressed gas. If that gas is highly flammable and is also the lightest element in the known Universe, being fiendishly difficult to contain even at normal atmospheric pressure, then the safety issues aboard an aircraft are pretty obvious - except of course to Net Zero nutters. But no problem, Mad Ed is sure to get Parliament to vote on repealing the laws of physics so Net Zero hydrogen planes can become a commercial reality very soon.