Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device?

maladroit asks: "Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation/Science Friday , Harry Braun of the Phoenix Project said that a hydrogen-powered airplane would not have produced the fire and intense heat that brought down the World Trade Center towers. Is this true ? What are the other advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen fuel ? Details on the Phoenix Project's website are a bit sketchy, but I'm sure the Slashdot crowd has some answers (and Richard Dean Anderson jokes)." Sounds like a good theory, it doesn't account for the hostage aspect, but it would prevent the use of aircraft as cheap bombs. Would there be any drawbacks? How much would such a refit cost for your average commercial aircraft?

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EVERYTHING should be hydrogen powered

[ben_degonzague]

2 technologies could take care of so many problems, yet we are not investing in them. If we invested more research into nuclear fusion for our nation's power grid and started funding to move every car, truck, and boat/naval vessel to hydrogen power, not only would the enviromental impact be more than significant, but we could pull out of the middle east %100 and not get involved with these savages that kill in the name of religion.

And this is the post that makes me delete Slashdot

[Tork]

God damn - The amount of sheer stupidity, scientific, speculative and societal, exhibited in these comments would gag a maggot.