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Only if you have an unlimited supply of birthday grade helium.
One day fusion power will be a reality
Yeah, but we kinda need the water… or we probably will by then.
Haha dw about it ❤️😘
ok yay 💗
fusion uses seawater not fresh water typically. And if you have fusion and its making power then you can just use it to power desal anyway.
I mean, I was kinda kidding… but I suppose with sea levels rising everywhere we need all the Toramaks and Hindenburgs we can get ;-)
I think we're a bit quick to give up on Hydrogen. We've got lots of better ways to suppress and avoid fire hazards these days.
IDK… apparently the current thinking is that the design of The Hindenburg formed a big capacitor that set off the hydrogen supply? I was only half paying attention to the YouTube video… but you’ve got a lot of other challenges to overcome. Zeppelin and blimps proliferated in a much different era, a 2 week trip across the Atlantic wasn’t a big deal… these days you would be competing with cruise ships that have movie theaters and roller coasters.
Yeah but are those cruise ships in the sky?
Haven’t ever been on a modern one… but it looks like they got like 6 stories above the deck, so… yes? ;-)