Posted on 11/27/2023 1:21:51 PM PST by DFG
The blimp uses approximately one million cubic feet of helium and 12 electric motors to achieve vertical take-off and speeds of up to 75mph (120km/h)... Its creators say that craft like this could one day reduce the carbon footprint of air travel and shipping.They could solve "global warming" in a day by inflating this idiot craft with John Kerry's ego.
While the Pathfinder 1 may one day carry tonnes (sp) of cargo over hundreds of miles, it is currently restricted to hovering a few feet off the ground.
Yes, but the hope is that it will eventually carry many times more cargo with a significantly smaller carbon footprint and much lower operating costs/ton mile.
What if someone wants to go somewhere that’s upwind?
Fly all the way around the world and get there from the other side?
But hey, if it saves the earth one is all for it. /s
Pathfinder One and The Hindenburg are exact matches in the four base Gematria ciphers.
Let's hope that Pathfinder One has a better fate than that other famous airship.
And it is 1/2 the length, and thus ~1/8 of the volume of the Hindenburg. Journalists continue to make a laughingstock of their profession.
I thought the world was runnng out of Helium.
As long as travelers don’t mind it taking six times longer to get where they’re going…
Thunderbird 6?
Nope, Texas is just stockpiling the bulk of it.
Carbon fiber stick frame is a wonderful conductor for lightening strikes...
Hello to you as well.
What is the question?
Nothing comes to mind, but thanks for asking.
I've wondered what happens when there is a strong wind blowing in a direction that you don't want to go. It seems that it would take a huge amount of propulsion to overcome the effects of flying what is essentially a gigantic sail.
Helium huh?
Where are they going to get enough helium to keep a huge fleet of blimps up if they shut down all the ‘fossil fuel’ production.
The vast majority of helium comes from natural gas wells.
Well maybe these Google geniuses can figure out some way to mine it from the Sun where it is vastly more plentiful than on earth.
“I like big butts and I cannot lie”
A hot air balloon that never ever needs to land. Have no idea what their intended purpose is for it… but that fact alone opens up possibilities other vehicles don’t.
Helium is a non-renewable resource, found when digging up uranium and such.
So, yeah go ahead and waste it on some vanity project.
If you pnch a hole in the tail end, it will become supersonic, make a funny whistle, zoom in a twisty crazy path across the sky before landing on somebody`s house.
Thermite. Mythbusters did a great segment on the disaster, isolating each of the contributing causes. The thermite paint was the biggest factor by far, and the recreation in scale was uncanny in its similarity to the real thing.
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