The Return of the Airship

[Mark Kohut]

Transportation is so INCONVENIENT..airships must swoop in.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:37 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://theweek.com/articles/824018/return-airship
>
> Transportation is now the biggest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas
> emissions, having recently passed electricity generation. Worse,
> zero-carbon transportation technology is only in its early stages —
> especially for air travel and shipping, which accounts for large and
> growing share of emissions.
>
> Steampunk fans and climate hawks alike want to know: what about airships?
> After investigating the subject for a time, I've come to a tentative
> conclusion that airships could indeed play an important role in a
> zero-carbon transportation infrastructure — but probably not in the
> form of romantic
> luxury travel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vNsH81YeA>. Big and weird
> cargo shipping might just be where the airship does best.
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