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Old 11th February 2019 | 07:57
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Fursty Ferret
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Many reasons. If you ditch bleed air from your engines, you need cabin air compressors; huge generators; increased electrical redundancy; big inverters + cooling; alternative engine starting; alternative wing anti-icing technology; bigger APU (potentially), and a few other things.

All these have a weight penalty.

Bleed air cabin pressurisation is a proven technology, although it has the risk that an engine issue in the compressor section can contaminate the cabin air supply.
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