{"id":2914,"date":"2008-10-28T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2008-10-28T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T17:11:23","slug":"how-about-a-nuclear-zeppelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2914","title":{"rendered":"How about a Nuclear Zeppelin ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED magazine has a post up about reviving the idea of nuclear powered jetliners:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/10\/bring-back-the.html#comments\">Bring Back the Nuclear-Powered Plane!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/images.elfwood.com\/art\/d\/r\/drosos\/red_zeppelin.jpg\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;We need to be looking for a solution to aviation emissions which will allow flying to continue in perpetuity with zero impact on the environment,&#8221; Professor Poll tells the paper. &#8220;We need a design which is not kerosene-powered, and I think nuclear-powered aeroplanes are the answer beyond 2050. The idea was proved 50 years ago, but I accept it would take about 30 years to persuade the public of the need to fly on them.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A better ( and safer) idea than putting a nuclear reactor on an airplane \u00a0would be a nuclear-powered super zeppelin. The crash risk would be minimal and\u00a0 such a super-zeppelin would have vast advantages in lift over an airplane and be able to ship large quantities of goods virtually anywhere on earth.\u00a0 Or it could hover semi-permanetly as a SIGINT platform with capabilities of being an &#8220;aircraft carrier in the sky&#8221; for UAV&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Inventive, aeronautical and physics\u00a0types feel free to sound off in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED magazine has a post up about reviving the idea of nuclear powered jetliners: Bring Back the Nuclear-Powered Plane! &#8220;We need to be looking for a solution to aviation emissions which will allow flying to continue in perpetuity with zero impact on the environment,&#8221; Professor Poll tells the paper. &#8220;We need a design which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,556,68,37,78,388,90,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-air-force","category-fun","category-futurism","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-nuclear","category-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}