Hydrogen Drones: The Future of Aerial Technology

Craig: hydrogen drones, the world's first fifty eight hundred mile range hydrogen powered drone revealed in seoul, korea.

Jon: yeah. so this is great. it's a quadcopter. it can fly up to fourteen hours and has a range of fifty eight hundred miles. to put that into perspective, for those of you just, i like to put things in perspective. that's the distance roughly from new york to tokyo. so, and, this is all this like, this is this is why i love hydrogen because this is all hydrogen fuel cells. so it provides a clean, efficient power source, that outlasts anything, gas, batteries, anything, which is really, really cool. so, obviously, if you're flying at fifty eight hundred miles, how do you maintain, connectivity and in communication with it? i think it uses lte and five g, for the communication systems. so yep. yeah. this is this again, this is cool, but it's so this is from a south korean company called whole green air. and so, yeah, they've unveiled this h two mobility energy. they unveiled it at this, energy conference in seoul, south korea. so, yeah, what are your thoughts, craig?

Craig: well, this is amazing. like, if it says you can control it from fifty six hundred miles away. like, i'm interested in that technology too. yeah. but, like, normal drones can fly from ten to thirty minutes. this one can fly up to fourteen hours with a payload of up to ten kilograms. so it changes the game for everything. when we talk about you know, let's let's take a step back and say, in toronto, how many uber drivers are in the gta delivering, food or whatever. that's less than ten kilograms that these hydrogen powered drones could be delivering all day long without stopping, without polluting.

Jon: yeah.

Craig: and now you've got a different kind of situation. unfortunately, drone delivery has a lot of wiggle because there's a lot of, it needs a place to land or a place to drop. like, there's some things that need to be in place for, talking to, you know, cameron rowe from hover and some of the things they've done in the past. it was interesting.

Jon: mentioning, cameron. yeah.

Craig: yeah. i've had a few interviews with him. he's good. he's down in san francisco. you're watching what he's doing in linkedin. it's pretty amazing. anyway, back to this stuff. i

Jon: yeah.

Craig: and that is just gonna be used for war. obviously.

Jon: yeah. as

Craig: we see war videos playing on this stupid, all ad, channel.

Jon: yeah. the thing is is, like, the drones that they're currently using now are perfect because they're the right i don't know why they would need a drone with fifty eight hundred mile ranger. is it miles or kilometers? mile range?

Craig: miles.

Jon: i guess no. because yeah. yeah. yeah. it's, yeah. i i'm thinking more of them as kamikaze kind of drones where they're using them as bombs. so, but, yeah, if you're getting them to carry payloads long distances, yeah, definitely yeah. this is the game changer for war, for everything when it comes to, long range transportation.

Craig: absolutely. that's why i say we need you know, you talk about and we both talked about, you know, using these for war. but then, like i said, you can eliminate a lot of cars on the road if we say, well, what happens if anything under, you know, seven kilograms is now delivered by drone?

Jon: yeah.

Craig: k. what does that do to our carbon footprint? what does that do to the roads? what does that do to traffic? and you say

Jon: yeah. no. go ahead.

Craig: why you need this range, but it's fourteen hours. so you can actually have the drones doing it all day. that's why you need the range versus, you know, the thirty minutes that they get.

Jon: yeah. exactly. it's like the governments need to start introducing better legislation to allow more testing with technology like this if we're looking to reduce our carbon footprint. this like, even if we're talking grocery deliveries even that, not just food deliveries, but grocery any kind of delivery that you can get that you can replace a car with. right? even ups. even that's

Craig: what i'm saying. all packages. all the you know, why not?

Jon: yep. yep.

Craig: you know, we got a long way to go, but not?

Jon: why not? yep. yeah. you eliminate a lot of traffic that way too. so not only carbon, but traffic too, which is great.

Craig: definitely stick around to make sure at the end that, you upload properly because your voice is kinda whether it's me or you, i'm not sure. shaky there a bit. it's i can hear you clearly, but it sounded distorted for some reason.

Jon: yeah. yours sounded a little too. so, hopefully, something else can definitely stuck around for sure. yeah.

Craig: alright. it might just be, you know, chrome has crashed a couple times on me today, and that's just the way it goes. but this is great. i'm i like this where we're going because now we're, again, having a drone that you can actually keep afloat for hours at a time changes the game for everybody, all drone enthusiasts and stuff. you know, having it up for ten minutes and be able to come down. like, if you can now go to a festival and have two or three or one drone just flying the whole time taking camera shots versus, you know, ten minutes at a time, it changes everything.

Jon: exactly. yeah.

Craig: alright. this has been great. what do you got going on, john?

Jon: i am planning to take the rest of the month of october off from any kind of networking.

Craig: cut any that's amazing. yeah. we'll

Jon: have to see how that goes. but yeah. we'll

Craig: definitely have to see how it goes because, i'm gonna try and get you out, obviously, on november eighteenth.

Jon: oh, yeah. no. no. definitely be for that one, but, no, for the rest of the month of october.

Craig: okay. that's fair. and i've been seeing halloween stuff out there all the time. so yeah. and i'll be launching some new stuff. we will be doing in november a weekend launch program where if you wanna launch your business in a weekend, we are gonna do that at workhouse. so saturday, sunday, we're gonna take two days and take you from idea or even not idea to launching your business. we've got a lot of other stuff going on, start up investor drinks on november eighteenth. and, john, i hear you help people get, funding.

Jon: absolutely. yeah. so, if you're looking for government funding, non dilutive funding, please reach out to me on linkedin. happy to help. and that's after you talk with craig, and he kind of helps you with your business and gets you from idea to a place where you're maybe getting some revenue or you're at a point where you need to get some government funding. but yeah.

Craig: so i'm gonna end this quickly just because we're probably both breaking up really badly. go to toronto starts dot com to check out all the stuff we do there. go to startup coach dot c a if you wanna book a discovery call and work with me and get you unstuck and get your business moving forward and take yourself to the next level. and look up john erwin on linkedin and give him a shout. and thanks everyone for, watching.

Jon: thanks, everyone. thanks, stefan.

Craig: thanks for all the comments, stefan.