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Go to the profile of David Lee Andrew
David Lee Andrew
Nov 18
Planes Are Ruining the Planet. New, Mighty Airships Won’t.
Starre Julia Vartan
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Lighter than air craft might supplement other forms of air transport — some of the advantages you list are real enough — but will never displace aeroplanes as we know them.

USSR flew a (modified) passenger ‘plane on hydrogen fuel in the 1970s. Hydrocarbon aviation fuels have been more economic until now, but with realistic…

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Go to the profile of Stephen Kahn
Stephen Kahn
Nov 18
Planes Are Ruining the Planet. New, Mighty Airships Won’t.
Starre Julia Vartan
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The proposal for using airships is intriguing. I do not known enough to say it can’t work.

Underlying all such utopian-retro ideas is the problem of too many Homo sapiens. I am not optimistic about our species surviving longer than the current century, If we can peacefully and gracefully reduce human population to about 10%…

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