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Rolls Royce CEO Warren East is optimistic about the future of flying. Under his leadership, the company’s all-electric aircraft broke world records last year, and now East predicts that the first transatlantic flight, powered solely by sustainable fuel, will take off by the end of 2023. We’ll hear how the future of aviation could be carbon neutral and what that will mean for customers and the travel sector.

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Rolls Royce CEO Warren East is optimistic about the future of flying. Under his leadership, the company’s all-electric aircraft broke world records last year.

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green aviation. How close are we to take off analysis by D. C. G. Indicates that improving technical and operating efficiencies and making greater use of biofuels can eliminate 40% sorry, 40 to 70% even better of aviation's projected 2050 C. 02 emissions. We're going to hear from the head of a leading Arrow engine maker about the promise of sustainable aviation fuels. This drop in replacement for kerosene has already been part of the fuel mix for more than 450,000 flights. So please welcome the Ceo of Rolls Royce. Warren East in conversation with Alan Murray. Alan, thank you Mccall and thank you Warren for taking the time to do this. Uh so uh and by the way, let me, I think the people on this call probably know this, but Warren is the Ceo of Rolls Royce which does not make the cars. That's BMW but it makes sense that power airplanes, trains ships also nuclear energy. So really very much at the center of some of the toughest questions in the energy transition. And one I wonder if you could start out by telling us how you think about this because you're running a company that makes most most of its money by selling engines that burn fossil fuel. Um So why is net zero something you're spending so much time and energy on? Um thanks thanks Alan and and thanks for explaining um the sort of breadth of of what we that saves me a bit here. Yes we make our money today out of products that burn fossil fuels and we're investing that money in the future because if I just look at flight for instance, I can't imagine that That my Children and grandchildren are going to be prepared to get on and off airplanes that are burning fossil fuels and damaging the environment in in 20 years time. They just won't do it as a set of consumers. And that means if I put a hard business lens on it, we don't have a business, Uh, and so we need to reinvent our business so that those people can, can do things like enjoy the benefits of flight that, that, that we've all been enjoying for the last 100 years or so. But they can do it in a way that doesn't damage the planet. And you've been working at this for the last seven years, uh, made some progress, but there's still a long, long way to go. I mean, it's 20 in your industry, in the industry you're involved in is 2050. A realistic goal. It's absolutely a realistic goal. And one of the things I've observed over the last seven years is a huge increase in focus on that. Um, you know, seven years ago, some people in the sector, we're sort of saying, oh, that's, that's a long way into the future. We didn't worry about that today. Uh, Now at major international events like the farmer air show a couple of months ago where, where the world's aviation is gathered. Um, it's absolutely front and center and um, you know, the whole ecosystem is focusing on it. Well, so let's talk about some of the specifics. Uh, you know, electrification is moving very rapidly in the automobile industry, but seems to be much more problematic in air travel. What, what, what do you think the prospects are for electric helping to solve this problem? Well, electorate will play a part. There won't be one silver bullet for all of this. And the challenge with pure electric flight is simply storing enough energy on the vehicle that is flying. And that means that we just can't do that with battery technology today or with battery technology that we can envisage over the next several decades basically to heavy the energy density of the battery is nothing like, um, you know, it's, it's, it's a couple of orders of magnitude away from, from kerosene. Uh, and so it just is going to be part of the jigsaw, but it's going to be limited to things like urban air mobility brackets, electric helicopters, uh, and small commuter aircraft with perhaps 10 passengers for 250 miles, that sort of thing. So there's a lot of talking a lot of enthusiasm around hydrogen these days, but it still feels more theoretical than real. How does hydrogen fit into the equation for you for us? We see hydrogen as a long term solution. It's an excellent store of energy. Um, but, but it presents some systems challenge for for large aircraft. Again storing enough of it and storing it safely on the aircraft. We think we'll probably get there in maybe maybe 20 years or so time. Um, but when we go There, there will still be a lot of new airplanes that have only just been delivered. And and the people who run those airplanes going to want to do it for another sort of 20 years or so after that. So we we've got to fill 40 to 50 years with some kind of transition technology whilst we work in the background on developing hydrogen and rolls Royce. You know, we're very plugged into hydrogen through some of the other parts of our business that you mentioned microgrids for for data centers and those sorts of things. So we do understand it and we are working on hydrogen powered flight as well. It's just going to take several decades to make it a commercial reality. And so talk about the transition fuels. How do you make progress while you're transitioning to new technologies? So, so that's why where the industry is focusing in on sustainable aviation fuel. You mentioned in the introduction biofuels, I think in terms of the sheer quantity required, we're going to have to look at alternative sources of carbon for the for the synthetic fuels. And so the term e fuel is used. And this is where you basically use clean net zero carbon electricity to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You use zero carbon electricity to create hydrogen. Use zero carbon power to electricity to, to power plant to make a synthetic version of the fossil fuel. And that's what the industry is focusing on. Which gets to the question of where you get all that zero carbon electricity uh, to, to, to power cars and the power of these new productions of fuel. I know you have a heavy investment in modular nuclear power. Can you talk about that and the role that's gonna play in this transition? Yeah, I mean, we think that's an essential part of the jigsaw. You know, the world has done great things over the last couple of decades on bringing down the cost of solar power, on bringing down the cost of wind, whether it be onshore or offshore. But the reality is that we need huge quantities of energy to, to decarbonization world, not just in aviation but across multiple sectors. And we just don't see the sheer quantity being enabled by solar and wind alone. Um, one of the challenges there is just having sufficient storage of power and, and you need constant uninterruptible power. And that's where we see nuclear playing an important role. And and that isn't just for the, that's the power. Industrial applications like making hydrogen making synthetic fuel and by the way, a whole host of other industrial applications, you say nuclear people think of Fukushima and Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Um, how do you deal with safety concerns? Yeah, I think, um, we, we talk about the fact that, you know, companies like Rolls Royce have actually been building nuclear reactors, albeit for um defense applications in things like submarines. But you know, we've been doing it for six decades now and those things haven't missed a beat and they haven't caused any, Any safety issues. And I think the whole industry has learned a huge amount from those very high profile accidents that have happened. And, you know, 21st century versions of, of nuclear reactors are really incredibly safe benefiting from that. And if I look at aviation for instance, and how we've With advanced safety and aviation over the last several decades by, you know, an order of magnitude reduction in um, in incident, then you can see that industry knows how to do this. Is there any way you can hit the 2050 target without nuclear? Um, I think that would be quite challenging. And um, that that's why we are investing in small modular reactors? Uh, and you know, we're continuing to bring that sort of thing to, to, to the market into the world, You recently announced that you're retiring at the end of this year. What do you, how, how, what, what do you want your legacy to be? Well, actually, it's very much along the lines that we've, that we've just been talking about, you know, I came to Rolls Royce seven years or so ago and um you know, the industry was just waking up to the fact that we had to do something very significant. We've now got a fairly clear path charted towards being able to achieve this. Rolls Royce is going to be an important part of that and you know, I think that's a significant part of my legacy. Yeah, well, thank you for sharing that with us at the Fortune, Global sustainability for him. You are a young man in my book. I'm sure you have much more ahead of you. We look forward to seeing what you do next. Thank you very much. Thanks for being with us.

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How Rolls-Royce is preparing for the electrification of the aircraft 

Rolls-Royce prepares for the electrification of aircrafts


How Rolls-Royce is preparing for the electrification of the aircraft 


what's interesting to me is that your core business is building gas turbine engines. Um, they, in a world where we're able to fly back and transatlantic flights. These are obviously the thing that gets us from new york to London. Uh, the, they, what happens to that core business in an age of electric electrified flight? Well, you know, we see uh, flight um, you know, very much continuing um, and continuing to grow flight is an important part of the world economy today. Um, we think that over the last 100 years it's been incredibly beneficial to society generally. Uh, and um, you know, we can see that continuing, but it must continue in a way that doesn't damage the environment. Uh, and so we need to find appropriate new technologies to enable that to happen, electrification. And pure electric aircraft will be for small airplanes, relatively short distances, you know, perhaps Perhaps 20 or so passengers or less for a few hundreds of miles at best. Um, when we go further than that, then we're going to get into, uh, electrification. So more electric flight, but probably hybrid planes where we're taking the fuel in, in some other form than a battery. Um, we're converting it into electrical energy and we're propelling the aircraft electrically that hybrid aircraft, uh, and then as we go bigger and longer distances will get into synthetic aviation fuel.

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