I just love them so much. Everytime I watch historical footage from the early 20th century I get very sad over the zepplins and blimps. I wish I could see them floating through my sky on a daily basis just doin stuff that isn’t solely advertising. They are the closest we have to sky whales. I just love that they float around like that, very joyous and whimsical. Fucked up we don’t make use of them anymore. I bet this makes them as sad as it makes me. Relatively low energy cost btw.
I’ve cried over this while drunk more than once. Think of me next time you call blimps useless technology
So about hydrogen. I think many people forget that every machine we use has flammable shit in it. Like jet fuel explodes too. They were just bad at stopping things from exploding back in the day. We have oxygen tanks around hospitals all the time and they rarely explode. Gasoline is everywhere it rarely explodes. We’d just need to be more careful about the hydrogen and it would probably be fine.
most explosive things are also kept in more durable containers than “balloon”