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>Helium Airships Sure. Great idea. Make a vehicle dependent on a rare non-renewable resource.
by searine 11y ago
>Helium Airships
Sure. Great idea. Make a vehicle dependent on a rare non-renewable resource.
- ItsDeathball 11y agoIt seems to have worked out okay for every other aircraft in existence.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoThere's more petroleum and/or metal available than helium, though.
- LouisSayers 11y agoExcept you're not burning it and turning it into something else. You can reuse it. It may not be renewable, but it is reusable.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoExcept for leaks...
- marcosdumay 11y agoOnce helium gets on the atmosphere, it evaporates away from Earth.
- mannykannot 11y agoUnless you can substitute an equal-weight return cargo or ballast when unloading, you will have to remove some of the lifting gas. If you compress it into cylinders, you will have to move them to where they are needed. That will give you ballast, but then you have to move the empty cylinders to where they are needed...
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