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Scientific American has a great article on why airships will probably not be part of our transportation infrastructure[0]. In short the energy required to move
by gene-h 11y ago
Scientific American has a great article on why airships will probably not be part of our transportation infrastructure[0]. In short the energy required to move a specified payload is about the same as that of an airplane, but the payload gets there at a much reduced speed.
[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20150701151003/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum-why-airships-will-never-be-part-of-our-transportation-infrastructure https://web.archive.org/web/20150701151003/http://blogs.scie...
- gozur88 11y ago>And in terms of energy cost, large classical airships like the ones that flew in the 1930s are just barely cheaper than the most efficient cargo planes... This, I think, is simply wrong, though I'd be happy to look at numbers to the contrary. Unless, of course, he's trying to compare actual airships from the '30s to today's cargo planes.