Why don’t we make heated helium blimps to increase their lift?

>why don't we make the explosive balloons more likely to explode?

>>16697357
Not hydrogen! Helium!

>>16697357
How would a noble gas cause an explosion?

>>16697371
Personally, I think you’re a massive bitch for being too scared of using superheated hydrogen

>>16697351 (OP)
1) they have enough lift
2) you would need to keep adding heat to balance the heat loss

>>16697371
If you heat helium enough it becomes hydrogen.

We should go all the way and use a heated vakuum if you ask me

>>16697351 (OP)
The fuel required to heat the helium loses you the lift gain of having higher lift. If heating worked they wouldn't make blimps in the first place and just made mega huge hot air balloons. Obviously trying to heat a gas bag is a really bad idea, the surface area is massive.

>>16697351 (OP)
Am I the only one who instantly thinks of boobs as soon as the superimposition of this image reaches my optical receptors?

>>16697422
and if you heat hydrogen enough it becomes helium.

>>16697374
It can't combust, but it can forcefully pop.
:/

>>16697458
A fairly light electrical heating element could work, right?

>>16697351 (OP)
We shouldn't waste Helium on these

>>16697422
>>16697586
If we could only find some heat amd some hydrogen and/or helium we'd have infinite energy.

at least make them black
or r u racist?

>>16697458
I present, the nuclear fuel rod.

>>16698221
>Use black material
>Absorbs heat
>Helps with lift
Seems like a positive but being reflective probably is so there aren't issues with portions of the ship expanding away from other portions of the ship.

>>16697351 (OP)
Helium makes your voice all funny. Imagine one of those things crashing, and the pilot sounds like an alvin and the chipmunk when he makes the distress call. Nobody would take him seriously and hundreds of people would die as a result.

>>16699520
There are ways for a blimp to get attention.

always hated these fucks

>takes up a huge portion of the sky to bring a tiny little payload

FUCK balloons

>>16697351 (OP)
>Why don’t we make heated helium blimps to increase their lift?
Helium leaks. Hot helium leaks faster. We could do it, but we would spend a lot replacing helium all the time. And for what? Blimps suck. They are easily blown off course and they're slow.

>>16697374
what do you think happens to a rubber helium balloon as it rises?

>>16700098
Pressure explosion rather than a chemical explosion?