HELIOSShaping the sustainable
shift in aviation
An upheaval of environmentally
disruptive and cost-inefficient travel
HELIOS will enable lower cost intracontinental travel by completely harnessing continual renewable energy cycles, pioneering the affordability of flight while staving off ecological disruption worldwide.
Noise Pollution
Modern aviation
produces significant
noise pollution, which
can cause adverse
health effects in the short and long term for
populations living near
airports.
The loud noise produced
by combustion powered aircraft disturbs
communities and ecosystems.
High Costs
Current jet fuel prices account for about 28%
of annual operating
costs for an average
airline. This is $215
Billion per year. The
costs of fuel reduce profitability of flight, and therefore limit its
availability in areas with smaller populations,
where flights are often government subsidized.
This results in expensive flights that most cannot afford, and areas where
flight is not economically viable for private
companies, reducing
access to transport.
It needs to be fixed
Aviation today relies on expensive, environmentally harmful fuel, which disrupts civilization and poses a
major threat to the future of our planet.
Greenhouse Emissions
The burning of fossil-fuels
in conventional
commercial airplanes
contributes heavily
towards climate change.
This is due to the proliferation of
"greenhouse gasses",
such as CO2, which trap
more and more heat in
our atmosphere. Aviation
accounts for 2.4% of
global carbon dioxide
emissions, or 10% of all
US emissions.
Medium and short haul
commercial flights alone
(<2500mi) account for
roughly 48.1% of
commercial aviation
emissions.
HELIOS aims to master the balance between
the most cutting edge solar, hydrogen, and
electric storage technologies to solve these
problems.
We've researched extensively, finding
innovative renewable energy technologies
different from the standard silicon solar panels
and lithium-ion batteries used in current green
aviation, offering higher efficiency and energy
density to create a more competitive
alternative.
Hydrogen, with an energy density 3 times as
great as jet fuel, goes the distance to extend
the range of the aircraft to medium-haul
capability.
Zero carbon, zero fuel costs, zero noise
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