/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>524024
What would be the weight of such a system including having to keep the water of my ship, and the electrical needs of the system?

>>523709
Interesting and fun to think about, but I dought that it'd happen.
>>523715
>>523717
Neat!
>>523740
Damn it, 10/10
>>523734
It'd be awesome but >>523775

>>521986
I was thinking of having an R/C plane for picture taking, but a FPV drone, while energy intensive, would be very nice.

>>521813
You're right, but I'd like to get away with an electric wench at least, moving a bucket up and down for 1000 feet each way will take a very long time and be very tiring.
>>521817
Thank you, I don't know why someone would go through all that work, just to have a blimp.
>>521821
I don't think at this level of technology. The weight of the shielding would be to much for the energy output to lift as gas.

>>521389
That made me think of an urn like bucket, which would actually be very good for that purpose.

>>521374
I'd go where ever I could, experience life, look at the beauty of nature, take pictures and videos of it. Experience as many cultures as I can, meet with people, bring cool interesting people onto the ship for a day or two.
I'm going to get a blimp/dirigible license before construction is done.
I do plan on getting food when I need it, if I need repairs I'll have equipment on board to do them unless they're extreme then I'll need to land.
If I get sick I'll let my ship drift in the winds tell I get better.
Right now I plan on being alone, but that can change if one of the friends I really trust wants to join me.

>>521169
That is a very interesting system for waste disposal. I'll defiantly look into that more.
I think the frequencies for aircraft and watercraft are about the same so they can travel long distances, but I have a book on aircraft call signs and frequencies that I have yet to read.
The height hasn't been determined yet but it'll probably be to low for for a parachute. My safety mechanism right now is just that dirigibles crash slowly, for a fire it's jump and cry.
Helium is more expensive I can't produce it on board or conserve it. The hindenburg also used diesel engines, had people on board cooking food over open flame, it's envelope was made with metal particles in it allowing for electrical discharge and static differences. A ship made mostly of plastics and modern materials and using modern electrical systems would be much safer.
A bucket can be knocked around in wind dumping all the water before it even gets to me, and then I'd have to take the bucket and move it around the ship. With a hose the water can be pumped directly into the water systems and the pump would be about the same size of slightly bigger then the bucket wench.

>>520525
I thought filtering the water I'd skim would be fine.

No I didn't think of using it as a keel, that seems like a difficult design, but I'll look into it.
>>520539
>>520550
I have a simple rain water collector that needs a lot of TLC to make it work at all, but I'd need to skim (or look into the bucket but that seems like it'd take a long time, maybe multiple buckets?) because I'd need a good sized reserve for electrolysis and drinking/cooking.
>>520603
I think using urine would cause some chemical reaction problems when electrolysis happens. I'll look into that today.

>>520488
I'm not calling the FAA at 00:30.
If I was stooped enough to get they envelope and then the bladders holding the hydrogen pierced and not immediately land the craft I deserve a fiery death. Also the envelope would be filled with nitrogen, helium, or CO2 and that would put out any small fire that would develop on the envelope before it reached the hydrogen bladders.

>>520475
It'd probably break up into allot of smaller poop missile but deffenatly not burn up. Once again, no where near high up enough for anything like that.
>>520477
Thank you, now all I can think about doing is sliding down a rope latter in a ninja outfit, tying a rope arround a cow and having a winch pull it into the ship.
I think that's what they did as well, seeing as how that's what boats do.
Spraying liquid waste...Now that's an idea.
>>520483
While a dirigible can get high enough for the cold to get that intense they mostly don't. The low pressures cause the gas in the envelope to expand pushing hydrogen out of it. Also the cabin isn't pressurized so the air I'd be breathing would be thin and cold as fuck.
>>520484
You don't land dirigibles. That's the point of a mooring mast, and why I want mine to be as self-sustaining as I can. Also there are pilot licenses for blimps and dirigibles, that's how you can get the goodyear blimp above a stadium. I know it's helium, but hydrogen isn't that much more dangerous.

>>520461
Well cows drinking cow shit is different from cows drinking human shit, from a biological perspective. I just don't want to taint my food supply. I'd dump into an empty field or woods though.

>>520454
Don't most people use the rivers for there cattle or have there wells connected to them though? I thought there wasn't any forest out there and That's why it was so good for farm land.
Also, hah! Good one.

>>520449
Unless I bring hundreds of pounds of rocket fuel with me, it won't get any where near space and just fall back to earth. I think your over estimating how high these things go man.

>>520425
I've travels all along the east coast but never into the west of the US. Do you mean no one would notice dumping into fields?

>>520420
All good idea's, except for the piss rolling out. I'd probably let it evaporate.
It's hopefully be somewhere between 200-300 feet.
No, I understand that the energy conversion is at best 80% the fuel cell and electrolysis is for sustaining hydrogen only. The energy needed would be from the photovoltaics and the engine/turbines.

>>520411
Hopefully I'll always be moving. I do plan to leave the ship for eating sometime. My main problem would be when I'm over vast stretches of land. Like if I'm over the middle of America I can't really dump into the lakes and most of the land is farms.

>>520405
Also part of my designs are antenna for HAM radio, 4g antenna, and WiFi antenna. I want to use the WiFi to create an ad-hoc mesh network in area's that I'm in so I can chat with locals.

>>520398
I'll post my final revisions of them. Right now the structure has integrity issues and the engines are embarrassing to say the least.

>>520399
I was thinking about using a mixture of hydrogen and helium with ceramic heating plates. The helium would be at the bottom before it heats up then it would rise and mix with the hydrogen tell an equilibrium is reached. Helium is expensive though and then I'd have to carry it.
Lifting bodies are harder to design properly and if I use the lift that it generates it's not really an aerostat is it?
I'm going to have an upper cockpit with a gondola for living in.

Lightning. Oh god lightning. Hopefully I'd be able to be above storms but a full body lightning rod is deffenetly part of my design.

>>520370
With my system the variables aren't that bad, if I dump the waste I can use the fuel cell to turn hydrogen into electricity and water to balance out the weight.

>>520351
My art skills aren't that great and my CAD's are right now of the engines and super structure, and I'd rather not post them.

>>520348
I will but any real progress won't be for a month or two as I'm right now in the planing stage.

>>520339
I have 7 right now but 6 of it is woods. A home base would be awesome and needed, but what I would really like to do is travel with it. Record my travels, show off my creation, and what not.

>>520334
Not yet but in the area of Ohio that I live in, there are a surprising amount of old and abandoned air fields. Hell I'll move and live in an old dirigible hanger if I have too.

>>520325
In the original post I mention I'm going to have thin-cell photovoltaic along the spine of the craft, and use the engines as turbines when they aren't being used as engines.
The electrolysis system would be weight-efficient by using multiple anodes. The voltage for each anode would only need to be about a volt, with more amps being pumped in translating into faster electrolysis.