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Air Genie - awarded patent video airship
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The Patent Office has awarded Tom Shannon for his video airship patent named Air Genie. “It’s a historical development of airships and media,” Shannon said. “It’s pretty extraordinary, if it gets built.” The Air Genie would be 35m in diameter, carrying 22,5003 meters of helium, and weigh about 20,000 kg. The 7m LEDs would put in another 1,300 kilos to its weight.
The airship's huge size, it turns out, isn't optional: the weight of the electrical propulsion system hidden within demands an enormous volume of helium—"You can only lift about a kilo per cubic meter"—to provide sufficient lift. Advertisers won't be disappointed, however: the 3,848 square meters of surface area thus created offers ample space to get a message across.
(blog.wired)
Via: blog.wired
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