I missed this 5 days ago, but I found out about it on Solarship's facebook page.
It seems Solarship has gotten 2.2 million in funding to develop Canada's North. This is excellent news, as Solarship takes the concept of Hybrid to a whole new level compared to other Hybrid Airships that all run on some type of fuel, usually diesel. This sets the stage for Solarship to have a very prominent presence in the hybrid airship market in the future. Not only that, but with technological development in the next 20 years, Solarship has the potential to be a sort of a free energy technology.
The largest Solarship on their website, called a Nanuq, has a Max range of "unlimited" when powered by only solar power with 12 tons of cargo. You can in theory take 12 tons of cargo anywhere in the world without needing to land, ever, and all you need to pay for is maintenance costs and supplies.
That has very world changing implications. Solarship's could become the worlds first practical free energy transportation solution. Even the smallest Solarships can travel 310 miles without any fuel, per day, and with fuel can go 1500 miles for nice global reach. That is if we go by hopping from place to place and land to camp for the night, traveling only by day. But in time technology will make it so even the little solarships have unlimited range, and the bigger airships can take more cargo without fuel.
This will cause northern economies to boom in the next 20 years, places like Anchorage Alaska will become a hot spots for Airship spotting and Airship culture, I predict. Because the economy will be so supercharged by Airships, that the Airships will become something of popular cultural phenomenon up their in the north.
Which will create a whole new generation of Northern Airship People.
Which makes me wonder if I already know what they'll look like?
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