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Airships: The Comeback We've Been Waiting For? (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it would be a fun experience, but so is taking the Quean Mary II and even she struggles to stay in the black dispite being eminently more practical.

Over land a train will always win, and in the ocean and in the ocean there are ships that can outrun it.

More to the point, people travel by air because it’s fast enough to get you anywhere in the world in a day, give or take. Biofuels and even direct fuel synthesis using atmospheric carbon powered aviation is always going to beat out airships because airships do not solve a useful problem for travel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is how I see it. There isn't a practical use case that makes airships attractive compared to other options, and tourism will never be enough to sustain it at scale.