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Meet the Speakers:

Ben Chiswick
Business Development Director
FEV North America

Satyam Joshi, PhD
Technical Leader
FEV North America

Can automotive hydrogen fuel cell technology power the next generation of aircraft?

In this HYSKY Monthly webinar, experts from FEV Aerospace explore how decades of automotive fuel cell development can be adapted and optimized for aviation applications. The discussion examines the challenges of increasing power density, reducing system weight, improving thermal management, integrating liquid hydrogen storage, and designing propulsion systems for eVTOL and advanced air mobility aircraft.

Drawing on FEV's extensive experience across automotive, rail, marine, and aerospace sectors, the presenters demonstrate how hydrogen fuel cell technology is evolving from ground transportation to sustainable flight.

🚀 Topics Covered:

✔️ Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Aviation
✔️ Automotive-to-Aerospace Technology Transfer
✔️ eVTOL Hydrogen Propulsion Systems
✔️ Fuel Cell Power Density Optimization
✔️ Liquid Hydrogen Storage
✔️ Thermal Management Challenges
✔️ Bipolar Plate Design & Lightweighting
✔️ Multi-Stage Compressors for High Altitude Flight
✔️ Aircraft Systems Engineering
✔️ Fuel Cell Dominant vs Battery Dominant Architectures
✔️ Aircraft Mission Modeling & Optimization
✔️ Advanced Air Mobility Applications

The conversation with Val Miftakhov from Zero Avia covers the company's changes, government impact, and regulatory challenges in the aviation industry. Val discusses the company's shift to the UK, the role of the new administration, and the heavy government dependency for certification. The conversation also explores the need for structural changes in regulation and the challenges with traditional regulatory processes.

Takeaways

• Zero Avia's shift to the UK and the impact of the new administration
• The heavy government dependency and challenges with traditional regulatory processes

Chapters

• 00:00 Changes at Zero Avia
• 01:16:20 Impact of Government and Policy
• 01:22:09 Structural Changes for Regulation

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What happens when one of hydrogen aviation's most influential pioneers steps down from the company he founded?

In Episode #15 of HYSKY Pod, Danielle McLean sits down with Val Miftakhov, founder of ZeroAvia, to discuss his departure as CEO, the realities of certifying hydrogen aircraft, the impact of changing political landscapes on climate technology, and his next stealth AI energy venture.

But this conversation quickly goes far beyond aviation.

Val shares stories from his childhood in Siberia, the physics teacher who changed his life, his thoughts on AI, consciousness, digital immortality, mind uploading, the future of humanity, entrepreneurship, and why he believes the most transformative technologies of our lifetime are still ahead of us.

This is one of the most philosophical, futuristic, and thought-provoking episodes of HYSKY Pod yet.

Watch, subscribe, and join the conversation shaping the future of energy, aviation, AI, and humanity.

KEY POINTS FOR QUICK NAVIGATION:

01:25 Welcome & ZeroAvia leadership transition
02:30 Why Val stepped down as CEO of ZeroAvia
04:22 Funding challenges, politics & the new administration
05:45 Val's stealth AI and energy startup revealed
09:08 Growing up in Belarus and Siberia
10:56 The physics teacher who changed his life forever
16:38 Digital immortality, mind uploading & living forever
20:13 Home labs, AI models & building local LLMs
38:14 God, consciousness & the origins of the universe
48:06 Favorite physicists, Oppenheimer & scientific leadership
58:32 Building startups, failures & creating new industries
01:02:08 Hydrogen aviation, certification & government regulation
01:10:34 The UK's Hydrogen Sandbox explained
01:11:02 The future of transportation & autonomous mobility
01:12:37 A future of abundance, AI & humanity's purpose

TOPICS DISCUSSED

* ZeroAvia
* Hydrogen aviation
* Sustainable aviation
* Fuel cell aircraft
* AI energy systems
* Grid balancing
* Digital immortality
* Consciousness
* Mind uploading
* Artificial intelligence
* Large language models
* Entrepreneurship
* Startup leadership
* Physics
* Future technology
* Autonomous transportation
* Climate technology
* Aviation certification

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