Wednesday, May 14, 2014

[zsaxhwwn] Zeppelins

Should hydrogen-filled airships return?  Do they fill an economic niche, a point on the Pareto frontier of objective safety, price, and speed?  What if jet fuel prices increased a lot?

Hydrogen does not seem significantly less safe than jet fuel in terms of ways an aircraft can catastrophically fail.

Helium I suspect will never be economically feasible.

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