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horseAMcharlie
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Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships
Would expanded civilian nuclear power provide some kind of sustainable helium production as a side effect or do the numbers not work out?
skykooler
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Even nuclear fusion doesn't produce helium in large amounts; a large fusion plant would produce about 2000 liters / day, meaning you'd need 136 years worth of output from one station to fill a single airlander airship.
dsr_
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Only if we change to fusion power, which is just fifty years away.
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