LOL - I always tell my husband that he can't go first - because I'll be at his grave crying that 'there's a spider in the bathroom the size of a buick and he has to come and rescue me!'
Nope. I can't win on that one. Missus was a girl guide and venture scout.
I believe there has been some work done with storage inside carbon nanotubes in recent years.
Just out of curiosity, what did they use in airships?
Boom-juice.
They were constructed of an outer shell inside which were 'passenger areas', a part of which extended beneath the craft, the rest of the frame held mostly an ambient air-pocket containing large 'bladders' (Gas Cells) of Hydrogen gas which could be adjusted for pressure by releasing some gas, or adding from compressed tanks. The bladders were specially 'doped' to retain as much of the gas as possible, however some would naturally pass through the material anyway and this had to be vented regularly (due to it's flammability) from the points at the top of the airframe where it would tend to collect.
iirc it was a composite of materials which contained the required ingredients for 'on-the-hoof' thermite.
As already stated, airships used hydrogen (nowadays, helium), but not for propulsion of course.
No, understood, but the question arose about the difficulty of containing hydrogen which is - apart from its unfortunate inflammability - the best lifting gas.
Right, I'm with you. You were asking about containment, sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick! As you were, everyone...
Sometimes, reality just shifts under your feet...
Research chemists at my site still use hydrogen gas in a few of their syntheses: fill a small balloon with hydrogen from lecture bottle, affix a large hypodermic needle to the neck (get a Grown Up), stick needle end though rubber septum (bung) of reaction vessel. Hydrogenation can commence at it's own pace whilst you investigate something in the Tea Room. Not any party balloon though, it has to be a scientific party balloon (more expensive) with much smaller pores in the rubber. If you fill an ordinary balloon with hydrogen it deflates fairly quickly - as you say, H2 is a very small molecule.
I'm guessing that would be the experiment involving dried leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant and it's reaction to being submerged into boiling H2O, followed by the addition of the excretions of bovine lactic products, and a measured quantity of disaccharide C12 H22 O11.
Surely it would only have to be enough to just run the engine?
Fair point.
If that was a guess then it was pretty darn close - at least in my time. Now more likely involves SunnyD and Haribo Sour Smurfs.
Gonna need a bigger balloon.
You still have a Tea Room? Lucky, lucky people!
We were promised a 'break-out' room for the Staff and Technicians, but after refurbishment it seems to have been confiscated by
No, I'd never seen this before either. I took it to just be a quirk/design of this particular make. I double checked with MrsF that I hadn't imagined it and she confirmed I was correct. (The only thing was that she couldn't remember whether it was the top or bottom button that had different colour thread).
Wait IHGP has days off? How very dare he.
What's a 'Tea Room'??
A small room within the site of a larger business building which is occupied at 11 am and at 4pm by the workers for a 15 minute bitching session.
Otherwise known as 'elevenses'?? LOL!
