What are the advantages of a geared contrarotating turbofan? I read that this would be the holy grail of jet engines:

Next Gen NB Engines : Contra Rotating Turbofan Fan

Why is this so and what problems are stopping us from doing this?
what problems are stopping us from doing this?


In some sense, it's business reasons. Developing a brand new jet engine from scratch costs a lot of money. Usually the pricetag runs into the billions. It will often take 10 years from the time you start to develop a new engine until you see a single dime of profit. If you are the board of directors of an engine manufacturer, and you give the greenlight to develop a new product, you might be literally betting the entire company on the success of that new product. So, you have a tendency to be conservative. If you can get a 10% performance improvement from some new never-tried-before fancy contra-rotating fan thingy, or you can get a 5% performance improvement by keeping the same basic tried-and-true design but just tweaking the aerodynamics a bit here and there, you are probably going to go with tried-and-true. Eventually, a limit will be reached where the basic turbofan architecture cannot be tweaked anymore, and then you may see some new thing like this tried, but I don't think we are quite there yet right now.