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January 14th 07, 02:08 AM
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Silent Flight: PV Powered Blimps
Orval Fairbairn wrote:
The solar cells to power it would consume a lot of its payload. In the text "Airship Technology" Edited by Khoury and Gillett, Chapter 16, "Solar Power" deals with design issues of solar powered airship proposals. Using thin-film PV arrays and brushless DC motors, it states that: "Potentially, the solar power system could weigh less than 10% of the gross lift of the 22 tonne airship and would then be competitive in weight with the conventional airship." 
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