Why Blimps are the Future! - Trailer
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I was wondering if you could answer a question in your video. I have read a number of times that there is a limited amount of helium on the earth that is usable to us. There will be a time in the not so distant future that we will no longer have any available for manufacturing and other industrial processes as well as for these blimps. What is the air ship industry doing to prepare for this eventuality and is it an eventuality?
thanks for the videos.
Thanks for asking rather than as many have, assumed a stance and jumped to criticize without listening to the arguments.
All resources are limited and the market price controls the distribution for an application. Helium is produced through nuclear decay within the earth. It seeps through fissures and is extracted along with natural gas. Because of its usefulness the demand is high and so the price is also high and it's rising.
This drives innovation.
High temperature superconductors like REBCO are now a better alternative for high field magnets in laboratories, MRIs and magnet levatation vehicles.
Rockets powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane eliminates the need for liquid helium to cool hydrogen rocket fuel. Did you know that NASA is the largest consumer of helium in the US... followed by the Department of Defense?
Aerostats and blimps are moving to advanced, lightweight films that minimize helium leakage.
Price is a great motivator.
@I'm And where does the helium that comes out of your "hydrogen" come from? Making hydrogen cold won't cause a nuclear reaction to convert it into another element. Distillation just lets you separate out the helium impurities you want from the impure gasses that were sold to you as "hydrogen"
Unmanned hydrogen airships are already being tested, high value shipping routes through the jet stream… I’m thinking about building one to live in lol.
Never heard that one before.
@I'm lmao... its you who needs less regurgitation and more investigation. sit down, clown
You don't need to tell me twice. Blimps have been the future since 1852!
till 1915.
@@FortuneZer0 too soon.
@@FortuneZer0man 1915 was probably a psyop to sway the minds of people away from this technology. Watch the "news" cast of the hindenburg going down. It's cheesy as hell.
imagine filling the the worlds largest airship with hydrogen…and then thinking it wasn’t intention to blow up
@@FortuneZer0 back for ww
Will the distillation process improve on a blimp!? Will the be propelled by home made rocket engines? Or will we have a concert in the sky with the worlds best speakers?! I love this channel and can't wait to find out!!
Hahah a rocket propelled blimp I'd like to see it
Most intense balloon commercial I've ever seen
We used blimps in the army to mount our cameras onto. They were a multi chamber design that were very high up and withstood some sniper fire.
Interesting! Roughly how many chambers? I suppose the more chambers, the more shots/punctures they could take (isolating air loss by using smaller chambers).
@@AnotherScreenname probably have some self sealing design or material.
Yes....and some of those blimps hold "satellites" weighing 4 TONS. Every now and then one of them comes crashing down in some remote place but not too remote as you can find them right here on CZcams.
I was thinking a multi chamber design was the way to go! Did they fill an inner chamber with hydrogen and have an outer chamber filled with helium?
So, acoustically neutral solar powered hydrogen filled blimps, with SRB torpedos... and a lot of whiskey in the cabin? 🤔
*helium
@@earthisacube_lul ahhh man ... helium is soooo boring. We want the power and 'excitement' that hydrogen brings.
@@PhilosopherRex Hopefully you ain't a smoker ;)
That's the most dramatic "Barrage balloon" liftoff so far.
I wanna see luxury airships come back
like an alternative to cruse ships, that's be sweet
@I'm not that big a problem with modern material sciences
@I'm The Hindenburg burned because its fabric skin was painted with atomized aluminium and nitrocellulose lacquer.
Hydrogen molecules are small enough that diffusion may be a long term problem, but keeping the bag from igniting shouldn't be a major problem.
I would love to see them as well, but since they are so weather dependent, it would be tough to schedule a trip around them. But still, it would be soooo cool.
Like bioshock infinite
@@ButterBallTheOpossum could you not compare the majesty of drifting through the skies in luxury to that trash game?
I've been telling people about blimps and they just won't listen.
They laughed at you at the academy. But whose laughing now. Hahaha
"HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT BLIMPS?"
"Goddamit David, shut the fuck up about blimps, we are playing poker"
I believe the blimps are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the blimp's laughter remind us how we used to be
HONK!
Wut?
We are the Wooooooorld!
We are the Zeppelin!
We are the ones sent off course by high wind!
So let's keep floating!
Helium Blimps are not the future, we should use our very finite & limited supply of Helium wisely instead of pissing it away into blimps, allowing it to eventually float off into space. Once it's gone, it's gone.
HonkhonK 🐸
Here in Calgary Alberta in the 80s there was a large scale prototype of one about 2 maybe 3 times bigger. Government and a medium size engineering company and university participation. It was the same short fat design, 2 big props and several smaller maneuvering props . Quick to build. You could see it from all over the north end of town. It's intent was to be heavy lift transport into the far north, oil exploration, permeant research facilities, large scale emergency relief etc. It was supposed to hit 50 mph or so, Test went very well, cheap on fuel even with a mild headwind. Cheap and build to build. Never heard what happen to it.
FELLOW CALGARIAN! FUCK THE BLUE CIRCLE!
50 mph is great until you get a 51 mph headwind.
'government' is what happened to it...
@@rockspoon6528 they know well in advance what wind patterns will be. over jungles and deserts it is mostly calm. As said it was about 3 or 3 times bigger and had big ass props. Zeppelins were monsters and could handle bad weather. Up north there are storms and then days to weeks of no storms. after hurricanes it is calm. Can get heavy lift to inaccessible areas that other aircraft can't get.
@@cavemantero sitting in a university building basement.
Those are the same "snoopy" blimps that was used on most bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seen many of them blown away in high winds.
Tom, this why it is tough for them commercially as well. I don’t care, still looking forward to the vid.
i wonder, how hard would it be, to live in a blimp for an extended period of time, IE a "house blimp" instead of a "house boat"
Interesting.
if the weathers terrible you could just rise above the clouds. every day a sunny day :)
Didn't Pixar make a movie about this???
This very statement started my interest in blimps.. just now.
My folks had an old houseboat. It was great. Someone make a flying camper please.
@@mattfleming86 I too would like this to be a reality, i mean think of all the tiny airports all over the country/world that you could "dock" at and explore for a few days and restock on supplies, before taking off and "setting sail" for your next "port of call", every day would be a whole new vacation.
I dream of an age where thousands of humans live in airships like a futuristic steampunk reality. They can provide a myriad of uses including shipping, network relays, weather stations, search and rescue, and scientific research.
Nah mike, privacy blows
And you could populate it with nomads from world crisis zones who would think that all the unpredictable dangers they face daily are normal!
@@linuxgeex Did you say SPACE PIRATES?!
@@mitchos9925Somebody get Samus Aran
My Father was a Lighter than Airman with the Navy's ZP-12 Squadron during the mid 30's patrolling the Atlantic for German U-Boats. Blimps are awesome.
During the 70's the Goodyear Columbia used to mourn at Lockheed Aircraft Service while covering the races at Ontario motor Speedway in Ontario,Ca Dad was a Radio/Radar Engineer with Lockheed from 1954/78 that blimp was the largest Blimp with an Airframe in operation at that time, Dad would take me to the airfield when it was mourned and show me around inside the gondola, pretty awesome stuff!!!👍
Moor*, not mourn. Unless you mean to suggest the blimp was suffering severe emotional distress from the loss of its loved ones
@@Phoen1x883 Depends on the blimp - Graf Zeppelin was moored, Hindenberg was mourned
I love Blimps, they're awesome. Are they the future? That I am sceptical about, as I've heard that being said for decades, and it just hasn't happened. And there are reasons why. Speed, maximum load capacity, safety...
Looking forward to the full video though, I hope it's not too biased in favour of the company.
a lot of the safety concerns can be solved by automation. Nowadays you don't need a pilot on a blimp anymore.
I've been hearing it for years. Since I was a child. Will prob be hearing, "blimps are the future of travel" for years to come. Still would be really cool to see dozens of slow silent Ubers floating in the sky on any given day
@@alexandertaylor2951 I don't know about travel, but blimps may be the future for shipping if they can get cost per kg/m down anywhere near cargo ships.
@@alexandertaylor2951 but now they can be autonomous, you don't have to have a human on board to worry about time/weight/food/water. There's serious potential that wasn't there before.
Agreed. Although, the way I look at it is like that: Blimps are not the ultimate solution to all travel and transportation, but they could be used, especially when automated for a wide range of things. I'm sure, Blimps will find their space in our global infrastructure. They have a very bad image still, but they hold for some applications a lot of opportunity.
This has no right being this epic.
guess you aint done the math. working with a guy that was talking bout using an areal line of blimps to hold a line, to move liquids pulled from the air, to pump them around to where they are needed. guy was talking bout hub points that could grow to towns, areal rail lines, etc. sounds craziest at first, but the math doesnt lie... you can scale them up pretty far, and the larger the scale, the more stable they become, along side more redundancies, to make them safer
i was waiting for an army of ten thousand men to start running out of those woods in slo mo toward the camera
Rockets, speakers and blimps... Always amazes me that my entry to this channel was brewing banana rum. Don't judge! :)
LMAO!
I can't remember now what was the first video I saw here, I think the DIY speakers?
Knowing nothing about this project, I'm keen to see how this shakes out
For obvious reasons, big bags of hydrogen require some special care and consideration
On the other hand, helium is a non-renewable resource that is becoming increasingly valuable for scientific applications and using it in large quantities like this strikes me as frivolous
Yes helium is considered a high demand item these days. Have you looked into the AirLander 10 airship? It was originally designed for the US military.
The difficulty with H or He being the smallest molecules it is difficult to contain either in any kind of light weight thin wall container, it leaks through.
TBH, a big, unmanned bag of hydrogen in the sky isn't much of a concern at all.
the hydrogen would be all by gone by the time it hit the ground if something were to somehow ignite it. As long as the skin is flame retardant, it's not likely to do anything more than plop to the ground.
@@Nevir202 I would bet whoever gets the debris on their head will beg to differ. Not as bad as blue ice tough * lol *
@@MrRoboticBrain Sure, but these are meant for remote locations, and the good thing about those, is that you can just cordon off the entire area that is within its reach.
Since it's tethered, that's only a circle with a radius equal to the height at which it is flying.
You could do even better than that though, with a system which rapidly reels the blimp in, if it experiences any sudden, unexpected loss of altitude.
With enough force, you could essentially guarantee it would come to ground on its base station.
When they're standing around with their hands in their coat pockets
I REALLY FELT THAT
LOL! You said exactly how I felt.
Just would’ve never been able to find the words like that.
This channel is so cool! I made the hard apple cider that you did in a previous video, it came out perfect!... Crystal clear, and yummy!.... It's all still sitting in the fridge though, haven't gotten around to picking up some dry ice yet, I need to get a couple bottles for it too, so it can be served properly.😁
I've yet to see an idea that is not either extremely dangerous or a waste of helium (which is in limited supply).
Eh just do a bit of nuclear fusion and make some more?
When is "soon"? A year later and I'm still excited for this!
Beatiful images...expecting details in a next video (soon!)
I work right next door to the O.G. blimp hangar in Akron (Goodyear Airdock). Besides being an absolutely golith size building there is a project going on where one of the early founders of Google is supposed to be making blimps for package delivery to hard to reach places. They were able to poach away one of the Goodyear Blimp pilots earlier this year to be a pilot/consultant. Will be interesting to see what comes of it.
Also fun from the Airdock was when Lockheed Martin (most recent owner) made a prototype of the HAAS. That is an acronym for High Altitude AirShip. Basically a surveillance platform made to cruise autonomously at 60,000 ft. Combo solar and hydrogen fuel cell power reportedly. Sadly it crashed in the hills of Pennsylvania while climbing on it's maiden voyage.
Either way having seen the Goodyear Blimps for most of my life cruising around Akron I love these big goofy bastards.
You can tell how important this is by the dynamic range of the synthesizer patches in the video. These guys are some serious lightweights and, come good weather or great weather, they /will/ be gently drifting toward a ginormous landing pad near their ginormous launching pad!
I don't know why lighter than air ships are going to make a comeback but I definitely want to! Mission accomplished trailer. You've done well..
it's basically a drone with unlimited airtime.
A slow super luxury trip across the pond should come back again....cheers.
I can't wait for the video to be published! It looks awesome.
I don't know if it is intentional, but note that some part of the video seems too dark, it was difficult to distinguish things (tested on 2 different screens)
This is basically in my back yard! I've seen the blimp for a few years now, every so often.
They've been saying that blimps are the future since at least the 80s. Popular Mechanics, Popular Science magazines. I don't think they're going to make any kind of a major comeback.
Can’t wait to be the first to ride in the fusion powered blimp. I here they are about 10 years away….
Funny that you say that, there's alternative fusion projects like focus fusion, another that got a ridiculous amount of funding that runs on helium-3, that make electricity directly from the collapse of plasmoid (ball Lightning) compared to traditional fusion it very small and helium is what comes out of it's tailpipe something very useful for blimps.
I'd be cool with a few days voyage across the Atlantic so long as there is plenty of leg room
I made a blimp drone ages ago. Highly stable thing but very dependent on wind conditions. This looks like it’s a good opportunity to learn more on the topic and maybe make my old drone more agile.
@@LegendLength Hydrogen fuel cell for electric power seems to make more sense in this application.
@@LegendLength Well, you've seen the drones right on this channel.
But efficiency is way off using a two stroke ice to drive a generator when you could get electricity directly from a fuel cell. (and you already have to have a hydrogen reserve for the blimp anyhow)
@@LegendLength to you and Jim all I can say is that like with any drone you have to be conscious about weight. The more weight you add, the bigger the blimp. I always wanted to look into DIY Dyson (blade-less) fans for the forward momentum but with a lightweight lifepo battery as a power source. If I add a generator that introduces more weight, more vibration that can cause drift in a blimp and worst of all an extra lift parable as the fuel tank decreases in weight over time. I'll gladly accept a shorter flight time if that means I avoid all of those other headaches.
I've never understood why the 'Rockoon' as a heavy lift platform is not being pursued - the reduction in fuel requirements should be I think huge.
what a hilarious music mismatch, i dig it tho. also these epic replies by TI are making me *really* excited for the full video.
Bet that was hard to do the b roll without a gimbal 😅
Epically dorky. Love it.
Some time ago, actually more than ten or more years past, I was conducting business in Germany and I saw videos of a company that was getting ready to launch very large dirigibles (née Zeppelins) to use as heavy lift sky cranes for remote locations. I don’t recall the name of the company and I have wondered whatever had become of the company and their airships. Looking forward to seeing your video about this subject!
Big issue with blimps is dealing with weather. Will be interested to see the use case here, but put me in the skeptical department.
If I had an airborne vehicle that only worked in 90% of weather, I’d be cool with that. I’m not running an ambulance service or something that requires perfect reliability.
...and air sickness.
@@twestgard2 good point, one company I found said they could operate in up to 30 knot winds, so that would be pretty good.
I remember sometime ago about a heavier than air hot air aircraft, kinda of a hybrid hot air blimplane. I would like to see you tackle that one
If blimps are the future and hydrogen is the future we shall combine the two and name it "O" The Huge Mantatee.
I got it.
I would like to see some detail on rigidity of the frame compared to lift to weight ratio. And a comparison of He to H2 along with the risk of ignition. (One show, some time ago, showed that the Hindenburg caught fire due to solvents in the paint and not due to ignition in the H2.)
One again you read my mind for interesting topics.
They are the future because... ...drums?
Cant wait to see this! Blimps are marvelous. Science!
Excited to see this!
Alternatives for the safe use of hydrogen in an airship.
Fire proof cabin - (Maybe use some of those space shuttle tiles? )
Passenger cabin hung well below the airship attached by cables that could extend toward the ground in the event of a fire?
Upper hydrogen air bag separated by a Kevlar heat shield from a lower helium bag that could detach in the event of fire?
Make sure the cabin can float in case of water crash?
Hydrogen/Helium mix filled Blimps (using modern materials and design to make it safer, for example Bigger balloon filled with Helium and smaller ones inside filled with Hydrogen to make hydrogen balloons not directly next to a source of oxygen), with perowskite thin layers on top of it to constantly generate electricity with low additional weight. This could work so well.
People always act like Hydrogen filled blimps are a terrible idea because they blow up if you crash them. Like planes don't blow up when you crash them. They shouldn't be spontaneously combusting if you build them with safety in mind like you are saying.
You could even use something easy to generate/dump like nitrogen in your outer shell. Easy to heat to reduce density. Still lethal to crawl around in.
Yes, compartmentalize it like bulkheads on a ship so if one section lights up it doesn't bring the whole thing down. Not sure if that's even possible.
I deleted my previous comment saying something along the lines "We should go back to making Hydrogen Blimps. I bet we could make it safe with modern technology". The Tech Ingredients responded : "Agreed.". I deleted it before I got the notification as I didn't want to spam with multiple comments :/
And yes, there are many ways in which we should be able to make this safe, the usage of Hydrogen in Blimps is the way to go in my opinion.
Compartmentalization of the gas chambers should make it more manageable and predictable. Containing it all in a bigger, outer balloon with a gas that won't act as oxidizer/fuel could make this much, much safer.
And instead of solar panels - collect and redirect heat from the top to the gas chambers below, by making the top layer transparent and inner balloons black.
There was claims a long time ago that aerogel would be the safer future of blimps, sadly that didn't work out.
Looking forward to this video 👍
Sorry but I'm dubious; so many airship projects started and stalled or abandoned. Always "Just n years away". I cannot figure out how these can be handled in any serious winds at ground level.
would seem your going to busy...
we have torpedoes, graphene, sacrificial fish and now BLIMPS ???
ah well, I'll be watching
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Interesting. So connection hmm.
What if it was coupled with some electric potential harnessing device as seen on Jey's Plasma Channel.
Or perhaps even better shaping the blip itself into a sort of one way balloon mill suspended on couple of generators as used to be proposed way back in various science magazines.
I was looking through some stuff and found a wright brothers patent for a helium hydrogen gas mix that was non combustable. Less then 8% hydrogen and the rest helium. I was thinking if you were gonna over pressure well idk if its possible is their a filter that would let you dump the hydrogen and keep the helium?
I never understood the fear of hydrogen blimps. Sure, it is bad if they get a hole and that leak catches on fire, but overall there is fewer points of failure than a plane. Helicopters are by far the most dangers flying machine yet people seem to fine with them.
Agreed.
They all clock in at less than 10 crashes per 100k hours of flight. I don't get the fear of any of them, all far safer than cars.
@@TechIngredients Do you have an interest in this company? Or just an interested observer?
better be a nuclear blimp with that sound track.... hehe
Wow man,I cant wait till you get all of this content uploaded. I love your videos!
Thanks!
Good attempt at a dramatic Trailer (Thanks to the music).
Just, VERY frustrating to NOT be able to hear what everyone is saying....!!!
I agree, Blimps are definitely coming back.. Good luck
I've been talking about this for decades as a greener alternative to moving air freight, even though it's slower it could be much cheaper and greener, modern materials and safe gases they'll be no Hindenburg disasters, I don't get why the governments haven't got behind the development of airships.
There is much potential there. However, hope that governments keep their dirty fingers far away and don't interfere, then these systems will have a chance to develop.
I want airships to make a comeback but personally, I believe hydrogen gas is still the most practical. Helium is too expensive and scarce. We just need to develop better safety and fire prevention systems.
Finally! ! ! God bless you and Godspeed.
I actually worked in the airship industry, so this should be interesting.
When can I book my first 5 day trans-Pacific voyage?
Seriously though, it will be interesting to see what applications an aerostat can outcompete towers and other alternatives in.
Aerostat balloons have been a thing for over 20 years now. They were all over Iraq when I was there during the surge and they have problems, but were generally good for what they were being used for at the time. The company then was 'sure' their future was going to be to provide communication and wi-fi for pretty much all of Africa and S.America...but that was always a bit sketchy and now Starlink has pretty much made them obsolete for that role...
@@fortusvictus8297
"The company then was 'sure' their future was going to be to provide communication and wi-fi for pretty much all of Africa and S.America...but that was always a bit sketchy and now Starlink has pretty much made them obsolete for that role"
Not if china starts taking out satellites in a space war.
@@scotttovey If that's the case, Aerostats are still a no go. They are super easy targets and completely nullified in bad weather or even the most basic electronic warfare measures. If anyone starts taking out satellites in any war, Aerostats are not going to pick up the slack, sorry to bust that bubble.
@@fortusvictus8297
You're expecting a permanent solution during a time of war. Such things rarely come about.
The Aerostats would not only be temporary, but necessary in order to obtain battlefield logistics.
You can add defensive, anti-missile as well as offensive air to air missiles to the craft for protection. This won't make them invulnerable, but they will make them less vulnerable.
@@scotttovey I know you mean well, but you can't possibly understand how much that makes me chuckle.
When I was there, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, it seemed like every week or two one of those things would either come untethered or struck by a helicopter in low vis. Occasionally they would fly free triggering this HUGE tier 1 response where like SEAL team 6 (joking) or something would have to be summoned to hunt down where it landed and secure the classified optics and other ISR gear onboard...much to the dismay of whatever farmer was nearby. One I know of broke loose from the shipping channel near Qatar and actually floated over the gulf towards Iran, I'm not sure what the final disposition of that one was but yeah... They are a tool, and they have their use, but they are not a solution to anything really and most certainly will NOT be providing theater wide communications or ISR capability.
TechIngredients - Where’s the follow up video to the binary explosives with slow motion camera feed ?
Im wondering would blimps get torn up if a bird were to land on it. The material needs to be very thin and light and im wondering about its strength
Blimps we’re used in the past. A lot more than I thought. Search CZcams for videos about it.
Are blimps the future? No words attached to this video
Can't wait!
Epic sound track. 👍
So, judging by the music its going to be a relaxing cruise?
We need a photovoltaic thin film upper half, electric powered prop and control surfaces, and a very slippery shape to maintain about 100 mph. Then you have a commercially promising future.
Maybe when Main Presenter is introducing himself to all these blimp people, he may slip and tell us his name.
😎
Tech Ingredients, have a look at the clip 'Jetoptera's Bladeless Propulsion System'. You could maybe use it with blimps and would make for a very interesting series of videos!
Not to pop your balloon; Helium is becoming expensive and most difficult to obtain with each passing year. Blimps have been rumored to be on the verge of a comeback for the last sixty years, bad weather and economics had other ideas.
In this episode we leave our shed.
No idea what's going on here. All I'm sure of is that I'm going to learn a lot about blimps soon.
I could see in your faces you were excited to have a blimp ride.
"We are watching you! We are watching you! We are watching you!" It's "Big Brother's BLIMP!! Soon it will become VERY relevant how well we've taken notes on rockt juice and fireworks (ish) prior vids!
Balance is key.
@@TechIngredients You are very wise Sir! :)
Kirov reporting.
Hydrogen is suitable for unmanned balloons. I work around thousands cubic feet of hydrogen at 3000 psi and 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. No problem. If there hadn't been a video of the Hindenburg accident they probably would have continued to use hydrogen.
I can't wait for the insults from this post.
Blimps were the conventional way to fly. The top of the Empire state building like all capital buildings, church coppolas, etc. were all mooring stations for blimps.
That's true.
I hope they/you are right, if nothing else airships are really cool to see.
I wonder how fast blimps can travel
My problem with non-rigid Blimps, vs fixed hull Zeppelins, is the fact that Blimps can only be operated under fair weather conditions, lest you want to see a hull collapse due to wind pressure. On the other Hand, Blimps can be easily taken down for storage, like any balloon could, were as a Zeppelin would need a BIG hangar to store it.
But then i start to think, if i have a effin HUGE Airship, why should it stay anywhere longer then it needs to be, except maybe for repairs.
It IS a ship after all and you don't see any commercial ships staying in one and the same harbor for longer then it needs to load the cargo, don't you?
Blimps with Green Technologies, or better yet with Tesla's wireless Technology...
Interesting. Very much looking forward to the video. All the mechanical/engineering problems will no doubt have solutions, I'm looking forward to find out what the answers to the "unpredictables" will be...
Like the increasingly unpredictable weather (including wind variability and strength) we're experiencing, and which seems to be getting more unpredictable, if not severe.
The launch and retrieval in ever more "unstable" weather conditions must be a very difficult problem to overcome.
EDIT: a look at their site shows this isn't a "transport" solution I thought it might be, but a form of "antenna" for data and communications. An ultra low orbit satellite if you will.
Correct. It's an aerostat.
I'm going to need a bigger garage if this is the future.
I think the music is quite a bit overdramatic, but I had a good laugh. :D I am looking forward to the complete story.
Better hope the future isn't too windy.
boats, rockets, distillation, speakers, epoxy... now blimps... you're the physics teacher every student should have.
Using a teathered blimp for telecomunications is a novel idea. What happens in bad weather? Is there a system that automaticly reels them in when it gets too windy?
the US ARMY did this at several bases on the east coast. If I remember right, the cable was 8000 feet long or so. It would reel the blimp down before bad weather. Well, by the time the contractors made the blimps with the surveilence equipment on it, they claimed that everything was outdated and wasteful to use. Well, the blimp at APG (Aberdeen Proving Ground) Army base was not winched down in time before a storm and it broke it's cables. I drifted up into PA and the cables started dragging the ground, causing havoc, hitting things like trees and electric poles, wrapping around them and breaking them up. They canned the blimps after that. I'm thinking this was around 2008 or so.
Airship lifting force scales with volume r³, which means you can load on more power/thrust/energy-storage, while drag scales with cross section and surface area, r and r² respectively. If you build big enough, your speed is only limited by your tech. Go big enough and you can theoretically exceed fixed wing craft.
Airships biggest issue is dealing with weather. If speed was the only issue they would be in common use for transporting goods.
@@kevinhacken9801 an airship in the jetstream could potentially go extremely fast while using zero energy.
The sky has no scale limit, we could potentially have kilometer+ ships carrying 5000 tons from inland to inland direct around the world in days.
Weight also scales with volume. There is an upper limit to lighter than air speed and while it exceeds that of a paraglider, it is below that of a jet airliner.
@@thomasstuart2936 a 747 has about 44 Megawatts of power. At high altitude, this could be achieved with 200,000m² of solar.
@@chapstickbomber which itself would take around 2 million cubic meters of H2 to lift. We aren't talking about the structure here, or the wiring, or what propulsion system they would run. That does not even include the envelope to contain that gas. If that much gas was contained in a cylinder the size of the goodyear blimp it would be 17 Km long.
the music is ... a LITTLE bit ...
JUST a tiny little bit ... toooooooo
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C'mon Doc!! What are we seeing here? Very cinematic, very interesting looking, but no context! In this teaser, this could very well be a scaled down version of the GoodYear blimp.
I need 10 of those balloons for new years eve, where do I order?
"Rigid airship!"
What is the difference between a blimp and an airship?
Jokingly. . .
One is a blimp on the radar, and the other is an airship. ;)
A blimp is an airship, but not all airship are blimps.
Specifically, blimps are non-rigid airships. They're basically just cigar shaped balloons. Without the gas inside they'd go flat like a pancake.
Rigid airships on the other hand have a cigar shaped frame filled with multiple gas balloons.
Blimps are lighter and cheeper. Advanced composites allow them to be shaped to aerodynamically effecient platforms.
Ok after that I'm super hyped about blimps, but still not sure why they're the future...
Yeah, I kind of feel like one of those mornings when I have too much coffee and run around in circles in the kitchin trying to remember to do what I'm so excited about. So I looked it up--blimp based internet access company and maybe other stuff.
Z axis expansion with out foundation support structures maybe.
I'd think they scale well in many ways.
Somebody is killing them iMovie skills ;)
They aren’t very efficient regarding time of delivery so there goes any use for shipping and transportation so what would they be the future of?
Do you think shipping and transportation is effecient now?
But seriously, that is not an application we'll be covering.
@@TechIngredients I guess the application would be either luxury travel or surveillance then.
And no, I don’t thing shipping or transportation is efficient but such is the sometimes seemingly slow advancement of technology in certain fields.
Wasn’t trying to come off as critical in my first post and am really looking forward to the insights this episode will uncover. I love what y’all do and the explanations. I’m actually drawing up plans for a solar heater for my home after watching the comparison video.