Comments on: A Zeppelin comeback http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/06/10/a-zeppelin-comeback/ Lost At E Minor: For creative people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:28:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Vincenthttp://www.lostateminor.com/2008/06/10/a-zeppelin-comeback/#comment-175862 Vincent Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:01:27 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/06/10/a-zeppelin-comeback/#comment-175862 RE: let’s just hope they don’t still fill them with hydrogen". I'm probably the first to fall in the elephant trap (and what an honor it is) but hydrogen wasn't the problem with the famous zeppelin disasters. The general consensus now is that it was the aluminum coating on outside of the zeppelin blimp which caught alight because of a build up of static electricity (or something very similar to that).Surprised that we continue to think zeppelins as slow when they’re "as fast as high-speed trains". I wonder if the romantic image we have of them is simply cos. they were a 'lost technology of a past era'. Would they suffer the same fate that wind farms are presently having - NIMBY. RE: let’s just hope they don’t still fill them with hydrogen”. I’m probably the first to fall in the elephant trap (and what an honor it is) but hydrogen wasn’t the problem with the famous zeppelin disasters. The general consensus now is that it was the aluminum coating on outside of the zeppelin blimp which caught alight because of a build up of static electricity (or something very similar to that).

Surprised that we continue to think zeppelins as slow when they’re “as fast as high-speed trains”. I wonder if the romantic image we have of them is simply cos. they were a ‘lost technology of a past era’. Would they suffer the same fate that wind farms are presently having – NIMBY.

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