The New Age of Airships Is Here—And It’s Electric

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Popular Science/Mechanics runs this story every 5 years. I’m not even going to read it this time ;-)

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  • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are cool though. I remember watching the one in the bond film as a kid

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• kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been reading stories about the return of airships all my life. Unless they make them weatherproof, it’s not happeninh.

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• eddietrax@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “It’s electric”

  Boogie woogie woogie

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• qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any links to a non paywalled article?

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  • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    archive.ph/vgWGz

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ahhh, much better. Thank you.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    archive.ph/vgWGz

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or just open it in Firefox and click the reader mode button.

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    • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m mobile only, but if I ever need to this is good to know

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hindenberg.jpg

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  • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “In 1930, there was no way to detect [hydrogen]—it was a tasteless, odorless, invisible gas,” Prentice says, noting that today you can buy handheld detectors on Amazon that are capable of sensing hydrogen in parts per million. “Hydrogen will not burn at anything less than four parts per hundred, so long before you get to any risk of a fire with hydrogen, you can ventilate the area… Hydrogen is much harder to burn than people think.”

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We should strap a nuclear reactor to one and use it for cargo that is dangerous.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Oh… the humanity!!”

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    • just_squanch_it@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “one broad with a static-y vest…”

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• blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m entirely on board with this, figuratively but also literally, if given the opportunity. It would be a blast to ride one of these things long distance. As far as cargo goes, I’d like to see a comparison on volume- if it can carry more cargo, it might still out-perform faster cargo planes just for sheer tonnage.

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• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Electric, you say…

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She’s got a zeppelin full of eccentrics.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are there that many flights that their emissions alone would be problematic (assuming all other forms of emissions are eliminated with EVs and other green energy sources)?

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    About 3.5% of the effects of climate change in 2022. So, yes.

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Big electric zeppelins could replace some shipping as well.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have a MASSIVE assumption in there honestly.

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  • Taringano@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course, there are all. Those. Chem trails

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair, water vapor is a chemical.

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