Leading enginemaker Rolls-Royce is pursuing its own hydrogen engine designs and recently patented a fuel system for a gas turbine engine configured to combust hydrogen fuel. This novel approach to hydrogen power could help solve one of the major problems of using liquid hydrogen as a fuel source, namely its extremely cold temperature. Rolls-Royce's idea is to use a fuel turbine to heat the hydrogen fuel before it reaches the engine, creating a more stable combustion process.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Devil's in the detail I suppose. We don't know if anything like this exists for a turbodan engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    But the approach is just applying old ideas to a different also old idea. That's by definition not novel.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's up to the patent office to reject it then.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    We both know the patent office is not capable of doing their job correctly. They give every megacorp every patent they want, because they're captured.

    Just look at Nintendo's recent patents... There are THOUSANDS of examples of prior art, yet they still got their patents.

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