Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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🥳 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241204-could-the-airship-be-the-answer-to-sustainable-air-travel
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s5eeo
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My 2 cents: I think airships will probably not be used for passenger transport on a large scale and only in relatively few use cases where the low speed is acceptable or even desired. Speed usually matters a lot in passenger transport, so it will be hard to compete with airplanes. However, cargo transport is much less sensitive to speed and airships have a ton of potential there: https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships https://www.elidourado.com/p/airship-industries Cargo airships are a very exciting direction and are actively being worked on now!
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