Talk:Airship design/Ideas

Studio Lindfors
Perhaps Studio Lindfors is interested, see their cloud city and cloud skippers deisgns(http://www.studiolindfors.com/work/speculative/index.html)

Too many notes, herr Mozart.
Just a few things off the top. Hydrogen by itself is illegal for use in airships today, since an event in the 1930s where a hydrogen-filled blimp named Hindenberg ruined it for the rest of us. Granted the envelope was likewise entirely flammable, but I digress. The design of the Hindenberg, minus the flammable skin, was sound, however, with a bladder of helium, which would have extinguished any fires. Electrolysis is the process by which water is decomposed into its constituent parts by running a current of electricity through it. If you then try to use the resultant mixture (please don't call it oxyhydrogen, it just makes you look like an idiot) as a lifting gas, you've effectively turned your lifting balloons into buoyant bombs. Flywheels, also, are a great idea, unless you're trying to minimise weight, in which case it's a dumb idea. As to making the airship go up and down, why not compress your hydrogen at need and store it in a tank that also moves on a track mounted to the gondola or frame for attitude control. In short, it's like you've taken all the ideas you could fit into the idea and crammed them together. What's required is a little focus, and a little intellectual discretion. The flying camper is a great idea, though. I'll let you know when mine's done. 70.28.62.105 16:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC)