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They're mostly looking into it to help get the cost of shipping goods to remote communities down, but this bit at the end sounds so cool I want to write a novel about it:

Rodyniuk said airships could also bring mobile hospitals to communities in the North.

"A fully serviceable hospital can show up in a community and remain there before moving to another community," he said.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Sadly, people have been talking about this for at least 15 years now. I'm firmly in "I'll believe it when I see it" territory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's time we revisit hydrogen airships. Use it both for lift and fuel, powering a electric engines via fuel cell. It would also allow remote communities to generate fuel on site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Just don't paint it with thermite this time and we're golden