Blake Scholl, CEO of Boom Supersonic:
Today, we’re announcing Superpower, our new 42‑megawatt natural gas turbine, along with a $300M funding round and Crusoe as our launch customer. And most importantly: this marks a turning point. Boom is now on a self-funded path to both Superpower and the Overture supersonic airliner.
As David Gerard points out, Boom’s proprietary engines are so far hypothetical, though I think Gerard gets a little over his skis in writing “[t]here’s no plan for the Overture plane”. The company’s demonstrator plane [broke the sound barrier](https://www.youtube.co…
Blake Scholl, CEO of Boom Supersonic:
Today, we’re announcing Superpower, our new 42‑megawatt natural gas turbine, along with a $300M funding round and Crusoe as our launch customer. And most importantly: this marks a turning point. Boom is now on a self-funded path to both Superpower and the Overture supersonic airliner.
As David Gerard points out, Boom’s proprietary engines are so far hypothetical, though I think Gerard gets a little over his skis in writing “[t]here’s no plan for the Overture plane”. The company’s demonstrator plane broke the sound barrier earlier this year; clearly, the company is not operating entirely in fiction.
The promotional video for this Superpower generator promises “42 megawatts of clean electricity”. This is, I will remind you, powered by a jet engine. I think even an advertising standards body used to hyperbole would question that definition of “clean”.