BAA is Buoyancy Assisted Aircraft. Not a true airship. It is heavier than air, rigid and not blimp shaped. Best configurations might be a Tri-hull or a Delta Wing. Saucer shape might work, but I’m trying to avoid the Foil Helmet stigma.
Photo-cells have functioned on aircraft before. Lockheed’s High Altitude Airship uses one.
My best guesstimates tell me that a supertanker sized BAA flying around the World in an Easterly direction might stop to UN-FUEL rather than REFUEL.
Can you think of a better place to produce Hydrogen fuel than above the clouds?
Imagine a Hydrogen Factory Airship that also functions as a Luxury Skyliner.
I’m not obsessed with hydrogen. I figured out for myself that it was an energy storage device and not a source of energy long age.
But it is a cheap lifting gas that can also be used as fuel.
I need some help crunching these numbers. I could build the thing faster that I could crunch the numbers to prove it can be built.
And when the Buoyancy is increased due to heavy hydrogen load, we glide in for a landing.
The altitude loss would provide forward motion.
Engine downward thrust would control landing. Vertival take-offs and landings wuld be possible on water.
Many Caostal Facilities may be in shallow water soon enough.
Thanks John. If one were using compressed hydrogen as fuel, would the fuel tank itself not function as a Variable Buoyancy Device?
Clearly the idea of building a hydrogen factory ship is foil hat, but the concept of building a fleet of “Round the World Easterly” Airships might be an inevitability, in due time.
HYDROGEN IS NOT AN ENERGY SOURCE, but as an energy storage device, it would be better than batteries on an airship.
