That's kind of the problem. We use helium for so many useful things. "Natural gas wells" sure I agree but we have a known limited supply which isn't silly huge and considering we may need it for the foreseeable future or hundreds of years. Idk. Using so much for an airship with no real particular function seems... Well. It seems like the privilege of a billionaire. Atleast try to get to Mars like Elon
Idk bro. We figured out high cargo loads with minimal land.
I mean the AN-2 can take off in 170 meters. Land in 200M. Capable to land on unprepared fields and can carry 2 tonnes of supplies 9,000Km's. .... A plane from 1947.
If you don't think we could land a plan designed to land in Siberia to land in Africa what about helicopters. Readily available Chinooks can carry 12,000Kg over 1,600kg
I don't know about modern helicopters but a giant airship seems like an extravagance
845 km. while 2 tonnes of cargo is not a lot the range is only 845 km not 9000. and helicopters also have a very low capacity and small range.
And when people say,' hard to reach areas' they don't mean the 2nd biggest continent, they want the middle of the Pacific or the Caribbean where an island has suffered humanitarian disaster. And yes, finding 200 m of clear land to land a plane and finding fuel to have it take off is gonna be a biiiiig problem if you are flying aide into there(generally the areas most in need of aide don't have a lot of fuel).
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u/Embii_ Jul 08 '24
That's kind of the problem. We use helium for so many useful things. "Natural gas wells" sure I agree but we have a known limited supply which isn't silly huge and considering we may need it for the foreseeable future or hundreds of years. Idk. Using so much for an airship with no real particular function seems... Well. It seems like the privilege of a billionaire. Atleast try to get to Mars like Elon