Solarship to Conquer Canada's North, 2.2M Funded!

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?

Investors unwilling to bet on airships?

It's clear that any airship project currently has a huge upfront cost for production. This and the fact no airship company has built a production prototype for a cargo airship is what is currently holding investors at bay. Hybrid Air Vehicles is currently looking to secure funding for it's Airlander 50 production prototype, while the Canadian government is kicking it's heels as to what to do about setting up cargo airships for Canada's North.

The current feeling is that because no one is willing to invest in airship development, the government should wait before investing itself. This doesn't take into consideration the globule down turn thanks to the 2008 banker bailouts that was shown to accomplish nothing for GDP growth, and it also doesn't take into consideration the fact that there has never been a production ready hybrid-airship in the history of the world, so of course initial investment costs are high and investors are weary. They are not willing to risk investment money because they don't have that much money to invest or the time to wait around.

We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars, which is something very few people have handy in the United States in 2013. If it was the 80s or 90s, there might be billions of dollars of available capitol willing to invest in hybrid-airships, unfortunately thanks to De-industrialization, we no longer have these types of investors willing take these types of risks, instead investors are buying more proven air platforms as they present less risk and are built on production lines, so they have a much lower initial investment cost.

Helicopter sales are up some 21% in 2012, which clearly shows the market for VTOL capable air platforms is in high demand. The only reason they are going for Helicopters over hybrid airships here has little to do with the capabilities and more to do with the cheap price of helicopters compared to hybrids.  Helicopters might also be able to do air crane jobs in tighter spaces, but hybrid airships are far safer and could probably do 99% of those air crane jobs that helicopters are taking up on a mass scale. And that's with the added benefit of being 10 times cheaper to operate, and having 10 times the range. On top of this Hybrid Airships are Worlds easier to fly then Helicopters, which should translate into training costs significantly lower then that to train a helicopter pilot. 

So why aren't investors buying hybrids like crazy? Well, it comes down to the fact that currently it will take decades for investors to get back their investments on any hybrid designs. Even if they had them working every day producing $25,000 of net worth per day, it would take 44 years to make $400 million, which is about how much it would cost to build one Hybrid Airship from HAV right now.

Helicopters cost something like 3 to 10 million dollars for a nice one. And if we imagine it fulfilling the same $25,000 per day job, it can pay itself off in less then a year. It will burn more fuel and be more expensive in the long run but it's a lot better to start making a profit in a year, instead of 44 years. Which is what is attracting investors to buy so meany helicopters in the first place.

Obviously the price of hybrid airships needs to come down before investors will be interested, but how much can the price come down? If Hybrid Airships cost 10 million a pop, the Airship revolution would happen tomorrow. But that's unlikely unless these hybrid airships are put on assembly lines, and that can happen only after going into commercial production. Hopefully when these hybrid airship go into production, costs will be cut by as much as 75% which is really what is needed before they can compete with helicopters for world dominance of the markets sling load operations. As then we are looking at 10 year return on investment, with exponentially greater profits then helicopters, after that 10 year decade is up. These are the kind of numbers investors would be willing to wait around for, but until they can expect a reasonable return on investment within the next decade, they will remain uninterested.

LEMV is dead, at lest that's what they want you to think!

I have a bad feeling about this. There is little doubt the nation is in a lot of trouble, and it's understandable that these airship programs are getting axed because there is little political will now to continue these programs with no budget. But if you look at my profile, you'll notice I have another blog called Upreising: End of The Illuminati, where I talk about the shadow government getting exposed in mainstream media. It's time I told you all about Airships the Illuminati and the New World Oder and how they are all tied together.

I have been trying to keep these two blogs unconnected to each other as I don't want to alienate those who don't believe in conspiracy theories when all they are interested in is airships. But unfortunately with another civil war growing in this country and with the timing of these cancellations: Blue Devil and LEMV are both conveniently caned when they are just about finished and ready to be deployed on the American people. I am morally obligated to inform my readers of what I think is going on.

If you don't believe in the Illuminati or the shadow government, let me get you up to speed. In 2009, a Swedish scientific study proved the existence of the Illuminati, they didn't say the Illuminati was real, but the evidence is clear. The finical institutions of the world: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, City Bank, UBS, etc, have indirect control of 80% of the worlds gross domestic product. What's more, when we tie in the facts about the LIBOR scandal the US department of justice has declared that bankers are above the law and cannot be prosecuted even when they launder billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and Al-Qaeda, it's literately mass murder! And the JD claims it's because "they are too systemically important" which if that's even true (It isn't),  it is even more true after the bailouts of 2008 which was supported fully by our congressman in government.

The cracks in the armor are there for anyone to see, if you still don't think the illuminati (Or at lest something like it) dose not exist, you must have your eyes closed at this point. These bankers are all getting exposed left and right as lairs and frauds! And don't even get me started on the Vatican! If you wanna know more about this I suggest you watch Thrive, which basically covers the subject with facts.

So getting back to airships, what's the Illuminati got to do with airships? Well if you watched Thrive you know the Illuminati kill anybody who makes a free energy machine. Why? Because with free energy they are no longer in control of the lives of the population. The root of the Illuminati's power is the purchasing power of the US dollar. Our belief (mind control) that the dollar has value, is what gives it valve. Objectively, money is worthless, it has no real world value save it's use as scrap paper. With free energy, money would need to become something that has real value like batteries or gold.

The same is true for airships, which is why I believe the Illuminati blew up the Hindenburg. Airships are too much of a liberating technology. With an airship, you have a mobile home that can travel anywhere in the world, delivering goods, or be used as a sky crane. They can be used for any job you would use a boat, a helicopter and a airplane to accomplish. They are probably the most liberating technology second only to spaceships. This is why the Illuminati cannot allow people to have uncontrolled access to airships.

So when the Hindenburg blew up, not only did it kill off airships future as a weapon of world peace, but it also killed off the idea of using hydrogen as fuel. Any gasoline engine can run on hydrogen, but engineers won't use it because storing the hydrogen fuel is too dangerous. Why is it too Dangerous you ask? The Hindenburg.

This is like saying we cannot build buildings with steel because building 7 was taken down by "fire damage", the only high-rise building EVER to come down due to fires damage I should mention.

The Illuminati wanna take over the world, they control your life already, and they wanna keep everything pleasurable to themselves. They have insured that the only fuel used is patrol based by controlling a monopoly on energy distribution. And they keep this monopoly going by killing anyone who gets in their way. We don't use Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy because they are the most efficient energy systems. We use these energy source because they are intentionally inefficient. Coal and Nuclear Energy need massive infrastructure and industries to support and use. Natural gas is used primarily because it's there. The last thing the Illuminati wants is something like Cold Fusion or over unity motors, that can produce electricity for almost nothing, and can be deployed anywhere in the world. It completely obliterates their web of control that they have been weaving in secret for the last 100 years.

When you realize this fact. Ask yourself what could the world do with airships and how would it effect this Cartel? Airships would insure an uninterruptible flow of supplies that could not be controled by any one person or group. It's nothing the illuminati want or need, and thus just like with free energy they are insuring airships don't make it to commercial markets, so that "they" remain mostly in control of the worlds distribution of supplies network.

Thus, because of what I have stated above the military is mostly uninterested in airships for cargo operations. They are more interested in airships for spying because spying on the American people is what they are going to turn their eyes to now. LEMV is not a good platform for spying, this was known even before the contract was awarded. But Hybrid airships offer too much benefit. You can see by the Army's actions what the Illuminati is planing, they want to use airships and hybrid airships for spying only. Which is why all these airships are drones, because they don't want humans in control of them. They wanna keep the airships for themselves while the rest of us get spied on and treated like surfs from their blimps which we have no control over.

So I don't trust the government at all when they say they have canceled LEMV. They built the thing in the first place to spy on the Amarican people for the upcoming civil war between the Amarican people and the Illuminati, that's what these Spy Blimps are really all about.

CBS News: "Airships to lift off again? Firm engineers comeback"

CBS news gets to go for a quick test flight of the Aeroscraft, and has a well written commentary about the past and future of airships. This report has the possibility of going viral, I hope the fact the Vatican has a lightning machine doesn't top this story.

The future of passenger air travel?

What if you could fly at 32,000ft, going 750 mph for as long as the sun is up, using solar energy to power massive turbofan engines?

It's sounds in impossible, but the concept being put forwerd by French industrial designer Daphnis Fournier is not just possible, it's actually practical thanks in part to hybrid airship design principles.

In this case, the designer is essentially talking about building a scaled up version of the same concept as that of the Solarship, but it would be used for high altitude, high speed passenger air travel instead of humanitarian relief. There is really nothing technically speaking that says this cannot be done, the only issue I see is the claimed 750 mph, I imagine the turbofans on this thing would need to be massive and power hungry to achieve that kind of speed, but even if it get's half that speed it's still worthwhile investment for the airline industry.

What would make it even better is if the 4 turbofan engine's thrust could be vectored down to give the craft true VTOL capabilities like other hybrid airship designs out there. Maybe Daphnis isn't aware of the other hybrid airship projects out there, or he just believes it's impractical to give this thing VTOL capabilities, which may be true for all I know. It might not have enough helium in it's cell to lift the craft even with the thrust of those massive turbofans vectored down. Most hybrids are built to have the helium support most if not all of their empty weight. This one might not generate enough combined lifting power to takeoff vertically. It could still have engines vectoring up to 60 degrees in that case for a slower stall/takeoff speed, but would mean it would still need a runway.

Do you believe the Aeroscraft will have full VTOL at max payload?

Now that I feel a little silly after LEMV failed to deliver near it's capabilities in terms of endurance, I have felt somewhat skeptical of airship designers claims lately. One such claim by currently trending worldwide Aeros corporation is that their Aeroscraft will be able to takeoff vertically with maximum payload on all versions. I can tell you already this is one claim I would not relay on, it's probably an embellishment of the facts, a little white lie to sell the Aerocraft to investors. Like maybe it can take off vertically with max payload, but only under the condition of little or no fuel, which is probably closer to the case I'm thinking.

The claim on their website that the Aeroscraft could takeoff vertically with 500 tons is the one that sounds really fantastic, I just can't imagine them putting an engine on it that's powerful enough to lift that much weight without being too heavy itself. According to what I have read in the media, the Pelican's (Dragon Dream) internal bouncy system is only able to displace 2,000- 4,000 pounds of lifting capability. That indeed dose make it revolutionary in terms of airship technology, but I have now learned from Russia Today that the Pelican only has 365 horsepower engines for a combined total of 1095 horsepower. If the Pelican is indeed only half the size of the ML866 and has a maximum lifting capacity of 10 tons, this makes it possible to take off vertically but just barely. The ML866 and ML868 could take off with maximum payload and some fuel, but the ML86X taking off with Max payload would need 54,740 combined horsepower.

That's just about half the horsepower of this diesel engine which weighs in at 2,300 tons. So if the engines are diesel which makes sense for airships, that's about 1,150 TONS of engine! Twice what the specification's claim it's cargo capacity is, and we are not factoring in the weight of fuel or the weight of the frame. the Pelican's weighs about 16 tons including engine weight. So scaling that up by 50, the ML86X should weigh in at 800 tons with engines. Now aviation diesel engines are lighter then marine diesel engines. The best diesel aviation engine I have heard about can give 500 horsepower and only weighs 800 pounds, so if we scale that up to meet the demands of the ML86X that gives us only 44 tons of engine now, which makes the job very double, but what are the complications in making an aviation diesel engine that can deliver 18,247 Horsepower and only weighs 6 tons? Can it even be done today? This dose not sound like an easy engine to make, and realistically I imagine the real weight of the engine will come in somewhere between these two extremes. So the average of these two numbers is 597 tons, and taking into consideration that the engine will fall more into aviation diesel category rather then the marine diesel category, lets say the engine weight of all engines will come in at around 300 tons.

With this weight we figure the frame weighs about 500 tons, the engines weighs 300 tons, and it can take off vertically with 500 tons. That is again, very difficult, but possible. However now the problem is fuel. These engines are going to consume huge amounts of fuel, especially in a maximum throttle vertical takeoff, or hover. So while it's all well and good if you want to hover for 3 minutes with 500 tons, but how much fuel are you going to need to hover for 20 minutes? An hour? Even if we imagine that it's getting the great rate as that diesel engine I posted above, that gives us 1696.94 gallons of diesel fuel consumed per hour, or 6 tons of fuel per hour at 75%. Now in a hover the engines will need to be at or very close to maximum output. That means we can estimate an extra 66% fuel consumption rate or 9.1 tons of fuel consumed per hour in a hover. That's not a deal breaker, yes it will be able to hover with 500 tons, but how much of the weight is going to need to be fuel?

The claim on their page is that the ML86X will be able to take 500 tons, 5,300 nautical miles at a speed of 100 knots. That means the ML86x will spend 53 hours to get there and use 318 tons of fuel! There is no way it's going to be able to take of vertically with that and 500 tons, and 800 tons of airship, it's just not possible. It might be able to take off, but it will need to take off conventionally, without VTOL. Which is probably where the embellishment of the facts rests.

This page makes it seem like the Aeroscraft can take off with full VTOL, at full payload and go maximum range, which unless the engines do come in at 44 tons, this is simply untrue. You can ether take 500 tons, 5,300 nautical miles without VTOL, or you can hover 500 tons of cargo for a few hours, not both.

Ultimately I'm sure this also applies to the ML866 and 868, but to a lessor degree as smaller airships benefit more from aerodynamic lift.