I wonder if ... Electric powered blimp ? 1

[rb1957]

given the issues with electric power, I wonder if an electric powered blimp makes any sense ?

and plaster the body with solar cells and have it recharge in-flight ?

maybe use them to ferry electric powered planes (since they have no range to speak of) ?

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[IRstuff]

One possible use of blimps, or actually, super-pressure balloons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpressure_balloon,

would be as radar pickets at the borders of a country to detect hypersonic glide vehicles. They would be flying around 30 km altitude, where the winds are close to zero, allowing them to potentially stay on station for months at a time.

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[rb1957]

"blades" ... sounds either (radar) noisy or "steam-punk" ?

I wonder if you could use the Dyson fan effect to generate thrust ? Maybe for the cruise engines that need only low power, and "proper" engines for "proper" control/thrust at lower altitudes ?

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