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Comment by hfkajshfaks

Its so bad that only the largest space rockets use liquid H2. All the others use kerosene or the like.

Either way, the Soviets tried gaseous fuels in the 80s - See Tu-155. They ran on liquid H2, CNG.

If I recall, the weight increase didn't make it practical. On the other hand it was a turbine powered plane. It might work out with fuel cells (although you'd need a big and heavy compressor to run it)

parent hfkajshfaks 7 years ago

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