Re:Solar powered airships
by knowtheory on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:46PM
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Okay, i should dial it back a bit. What they're promising is cool. Low infrastructure, high pay-load travel is indeed interesting.
But they too are depleting a natural resource, just as petrochemical fuel usage does. And while we can find other storage mechanisms for portable energy (batteries, flywheels, hydrogen, what-have-you), there literally is no substitute for Helium cooling, by virtue of the laws of physics as we know them.
But they too are depleting a natural resource, just as petrochemical fuel usage does. And while we can find other storage mechanisms for portable energy (batteries, flywheels, hydrogen, what-have-you), there literally is no substitute for Helium cooling, by virtue of the laws of physics as we know them.
This is not worth giving up cryogenics.