Canadian North signs deal to design airship

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-north-signs-deal-to-launch-airships-in-the-north-1.6899363?cmp=rss

They're mostly looking into it to help get the cost of shipping goods to remote communities down, but this bit at the end sounds so cool I want to write a novel about it:

Rodyniuk said airships could also bring mobile hospitals to communities in the North.

"A fully serviceable hospital can show up in a community and remain there before moving to another community," he said.

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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website · 7 pts · 3y

Sadly, people have been talking about this for at least 15 years now. I'm firmly in "I'll believe it when I see it" territory.

weew@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I wonder if it's time we revisit hydrogen airships. Use it both for lift and fuel, powering a electric engines via fuel cell. It would also allow remote communities to generate fuel on site.

Revan343@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y

Just don't paint it with thermite this time and we're golden