We posted this video yesterday, but took it down soon after when we noticed an error. Here’s take 2 - thank you for watching!
@youwatch1995 Says:
If we added a parachute to the airship will it provide more lift?
@MrCharles7994 Says:
One thing to note; Big airplanes are one of the safest ways to travel. Small airplanes are somewhere between cars are motorcycles, which is to say, awful. Hence it's not really that zeppelins were more dangerous than contemporary planes, it's that they're more dangerous than modern passenger jets
@TrippyMushrooms Says:
This can be done just not in a centralized profit structure
@williamcourtland5945 Says:
Independence Day had excellent examples of Heavy Construction, Air-Ship Platforms. You landed planes on them for personnel transfer. The concept was soured when the Molten Carbon Fuel Cells were sabotaged over the city construction projects they were being used for.
@BluejaySparky Says:
imagine a world where you can look up and see massive behemoths float through the sky carrying all sorts of cargo knowing it has minimal negative impact on the environment
@davidbrandenburg8029 Says:
seems like a no brainer to me!
@BobSmith-dk8nw Says:
OK.
Let's take a look at the Lighter Than Air Vehicles we are currently using on a common basis.
They are Blimps.
What is the advantage of a Blimp?
You can deflate it - load it onto a truck - and drive it where ever you are going - then put the Blimp back together and if the weather's good - fly it. If the weather is not good - leave it in the truck(s).
That is how Blimps are used today. Blimps do NOT fly from one point to another - they are driven there in trucks and they are only used in the summer time when the weather is conducive to their operation.
How do you make money with Blimps? You take that large surface area they have and put advertising on it. The engines make noise. People look up. They see the Advertising - and that makes their use profitable.
There is a very severe problem with that large surface area though.
What destroyed the _Akron and the _Macon_ ? Weather.
Because they have to be really big to lift stuff - they have a very large surface area that can be severely impacted by weather.
Your are not going to be able to put fans on an Airship Large enough to encounter the winds which Mother Nature routinely sends careening across the globe.
Since you can't deflate the rigid structure Airships - you have to have a hangar large enough to contain them - and - they have to be able to either avoid the weather - or - get in their hangars.
When you have Weather Front's that extend all the way across a country like the United States - how in the world are they going to avoid a weather front like that? They can't and it will destroy them - if they can't get in Hangars. You can tie an Air Plane down - so that it resists the wind that is trying to lift it off the ground. Any wind driving it into the ground - will be absorbed by it's Landing Gears. With the Air Ship - the wind is going to drive it into the ground and it will be destroyed.
I'm old now and every 10 or 20 years or so there's been this _"Air Ships Are Coming Back!!!!"_ . No. They aren't. They never do.
They have to have a large surface area to fly - and that large surface area - can be impacted by weather - which will destroy them.
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@koltonlomas7111 Says:
Von Zeppelin would be so proud to see his innovate transportation and cargo in the world
@blimpyy Says:
Hello
@THE_MUN Says:
I am sorry if missed anything but at 6:00 you say their are no scaling issues, but at 19:53 you say there is a sclaing issue
@user-lj8iz1yj8w Says:
What about storms
@krieger7510 Says:
Before the airship unloads its cargo, just attach some cables to the ground so It can stay anchored without floating away.
@sethstatler8480 Says:
How do we make hydrogen inert with the same mass properties?
Or how do we make it inert if a fire were to breakout?
Thinking of scrubbers on scuba.
We have sprinklers in buildings.
Extinguishing systems that will FILL a building with co2 foam.
Iv got ideas for days.
My problem is an equal mind that can wrangle my own.
@DgxShix Says:
this video recommended to me right after i watch “what if hindenburg never happened”, weird eh?
@masoncrabb6358 Says:
I want my steampunk tesla coil future please.
@schorschkrachbummduke Says:
We are already running out of Helium, do not wast it on this.
@ZMB-on5ub Says:
No. I ordered a $4.99 gas chromatograph off Temu and the shipment got downed by an F-22. Costumer support is of no help.
@RonaldTindle-dt7fs Says:
Tired of looking at Lady boy presenters. Great info, creepy FTM. I find her offensive, beard or no beard......
@mirandahotspring4019 Says:
They are back! For at least the last thirty years Zeppelin NT (new technology) have been operating Zeppelin sightseeing tours over Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
@nicolasbertin8552 Says:
Whatever you do, don't let Boeing build one :D
@AnotherJman Says:
When i see an idea of a modern blimp, i can't help but think of some maniac shooting it out of the sky. I know bulletproof glass is partially made of plastic. Think the blimps will have to be wrapped in a similar material?
@Cian097 Says:
Everything i know about rigid airships is from skytanic in Archer- Lana the helium!
@user-lv2ud3zp5i Says:
It would be a great vacation adventure. I wanted to go on the Goodyear blimp. . . Too expensive 😫 🎈 Anaheim, Ca. . . Just off the I-405 Home of the Goodyear blimp.
@oscarmelendez7356 Says:
I love these videos because they provide a sense of optimism but other thing that I don’t like is when is it that we’re going to see them? I hate it that they’re gonna maybe next year I need some exact time.
@lifespurpose1 Says:
There is one more lifting gas that could be explored. It’s cheap, abundant and has enough lift to be useful. When it’s cool you can drink it. Some people call it hydrogen oxide, or it can be called oxygen dihydride, or H2O. When in fully gaseous state at a mere 100°C (lower at altitude) it has proven itself able to stay aloft despite weighing millions of tons. To prove this amazing fact just go out and look up on a cloudy day. (Actually clouds aren’t that hot, but you get the idea.) The main issue is keeping it hot. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to turn it to steam, so that would be done on the ground. It takes much less energy to keep it gaseous, provided the airship envelope is adequately insulated. Insulation is by definition low density and therefore light, so this should be possible with modern materials.
@ASMRunning Says:
Anyone else see that SUV flying down the road at 11:58?
@DiegoKeaneMusic Says:
A possible solution for the weight-lift problem: When the airship drops off the cargo, it picks up standardized blocks of concrete (or rock or metal) that, say, weigh 5000 pounds each. Then, when the airship picks up cargo at a different stop, it drops off those blocks for the next airship to pick up.
Edit: Derek stated my exact idea right after I finished making this comment
@geraldleat5970 Says:
How much is the Liability Insurance?
@dafarulia Says:
I understand your enthusiasm, but it's improbable and unrealistic to expect airships to replace trucks or ships. The primary concern is the inherent instability of the air compared to the stability and predictability of land and water. Even conventional planes are heavily influenced by weather conditions. Airships would be even more vulnerable to these factors, making them unreliable and unstable for widespread use. Factors such as wind patterns, turbulence, and weather conditions can significantly affect their operation.
@user-dq2qe3zn4f Says:
Why can't we anchor them?
@Thor-the-BlueBoy Says:
0:04 (Good Times Bad Times Starts Playing)
17:42 (Good Times Bad Times Plays Again)
@GoodGuyChris Says:
No they are totally uneffective
@1inhole300 Says:
Oh the humanity!
@theblackuy Says:
If we were making an airship until now i think we would see people traveling around the world with it
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
380 metres is way to long if the weight was of or the gas was not equal it would be to ridged
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
Imagine using the actual walls themselves as solar
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
It could be possible it would even be cool everyone would be up in the sky freedom but the traffic in the air would be unbelievable then you got accidents hundreds if not thousands of deaths from balloons falling from the sky . Accidents do happen explosions it be crazy. But its the future like all good things comes risk
@fulltimeshitposter3643 Says:
Could you not dig deep anchoring structures and toss a giant chain/wire of some sort down and attach it?
@razorwolf2758 Says:
because airships are cool
@shanevonknuth Says:
Regarding cargo delivery– Could you store the helium at your drop-off destination instead of venting it?
@EASYTIGER10 Says:
14:00 By definition, when you have lowered the load, you have a stable connection between the ground and the airship. Why not attach the tethers you used for the load to anchor points on the ground, then stabilise the lift of the airship at your leisure - whether by venting or even attaching another payload.- before departing.
@EASYTIGER10 Says:
Could you have a hydrogen core surrounded by Helium bags? If you needed to vent, you vent the cheap, plentiful hydrogen. If any of the helium bags are compromised by a leak, the hydrogen is better able to compensate. And the hydrogen is protected from external combustion risks like lightning or static electricity
@equableartist2295 Says:
Could Gyroscopes help stabilise an airship going at higher speeds and even aid keep it upright when unloading against high winds? Can anyone help me with this idea I have? I mean I heard that one of the reasons that Airships are so slow is stability problems at higher speeds and I feel like this would fix this problem. Anyone agree?
@gunnarkaestle Says:
Cargolifter?
@sleepingcity85 Says:
You forgot to mention that this 360m hangar is still the biggest self-supporting building in the world! It was quite a feat to build it in the first place. Not to speak about bigger ones. Interesting fact: The hangar mentioned in the video is now a water park. The owner went bankrupt trying to build actual airships.
@teeconsigliano7631 Says:
what about pirates?
@johnmurray3888 Says:
If we can use silicon chips to drive cars safely on our roads, then it should be possible to program a computer to control an airship safely and navigate it to its required destinations. Once we eliminate the need for a human crew then the risk of replacing helium with hydrogen becomes acceptable. Airships can do a lot of heavy lifting without ever flying over densely populated municipalities, most long-range transportation of cargo is over water. Helium is far too valuable a commodity to waste in party balloons, let alone venting helium from airships - which would be a criminal waste. Laws should be passed to compell the operators of natural gas wells to design-in the necessary infrastructure to capture helium. Breeder reactors can produce helium through the neutron bombardment of lithium, but helium will never be cheap or aboundant on earth - ironic when one considers the fact that it is the second most abundant element in the universe!
@thoughtstorms_keith Says:
Yeah. Job one is - do NOT paint the aircraft with SOLID ROCKET FUEL. Then Hydrogen makes perfect sense. It burns clean, it burns almost exclusively straight up, and --- can be used as fuel for propulsion, or whatever other onboard needs. The time to make this happen is 150 YEARs ago.
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