Directly addressing the issue of the world's increasingly high carbon footprint, Hydroplane Ltd management are directly addressing how to meet climate directives and remediate global warming. The firm is structured around the development of an aviation hydrogen fuel cell power plant designed to enable emission free flight with the added advantage of the fact that the technology can also be used for the hyperloop and space applications. Currently severely range limited, battery powered electric aircraft have a low payload fraction, thermal stability concerns, and inadequate operational efficiency for both the commercial and military customer. Hydroplane's fuel cell powerplant is designed explxitly to mitigate all these factors. The firm is tackling the development of a modular hydrogen fuel cell power plant for a range of uses with the focus on a novel technology that will overcome thermal limitations, reduce unit cost, improve performance, and enhance durability. Being designed to enable operational efficiency and range similar to av-gas piston and turbine driven aircraft with the energy efficiency and lower maintenance cost of electric propulsion, the target effort is to achieve improvement in range, endurance, and payload over the battery powered equivalent.
