And it floats...

And it floats...

VACUUCRAFT

The project VACUUCRAFT is the continuation and Perfektionierung of the old airship idea. Zeppelin, Cargolifter and other projects failed not only because of the fact that always expensive and dangerous gases had to be used. VACUUCRAFT goes the natural way and aims at the construction of airships whose impetus bodies neutralize the gravity of the earth within the atmosphere by a vacuum in her inside. The weight saved by the high vacuum is used for the construction of the steady cover. Today the technical realization is possible by the application of the most modern materials. The glass and coal fiber-group materials which find already widespread application and modern carbon and metal foam belong to it. Metal foams are most on aluminum based materials which exist to 85% of air. They are externally very similar to conventional plastic foams, however, higher firmness has and the qualities which are typical for metals own. A skillful combination of these materials allows the construction of gigantic airships which can transport loads of many thousand metric tons.
The whole transportation should be revolutionized by VACUUCRAFT. In contrast to other transport vehicles counts here: The greater the more actually. The reason for this arises from the easy geometry. While the volume of a ball with the third power of the radius increases, the upper surface grows only about two powers. That is the specific load-carrying capacity of an airship increases with the Größe. It is advantageous here also that the weight of the whole construction grows only possibly linearly to the radius. Thus a vacuum ball with a radius of 10 meters can carry about 2,000 kilograms, a ball with a radius of 100 meters away more than 2,000 metric tons. Within these scales the whole traffic LKW and inland ship traffic which can be substituted with VACUUCRAFT to a great extent moves.

Special advantages also arise in the production of the spherical airships. The single elements are produced as pentagons and hexagons with the same side lengths from which to themselves big airships passed away in series allow to make. This principle is known in general from the football. In the nature we find this so-called Fullerene with carbon molecules. Many natural Fullerene exist of 12 pentagons which are surrounded by hexagons. A spherical curvature and big stability originates from the combination of pentagons and hexagons because the pentagons do not border on each other, but are surrounded only by hexagons and a magic number of corner points from, e.g., 60, 70, 76 exists etc. This is a pure nature.
There are other big advantages compared with the known means of transportation in the matter of security. The whole impetus body is split in several departments which are insulated mutually. In addition, vacuum pumps are appropriated, in case of a damage of the cover the incoming air heraus-pumpen. Every average is thereby excluded.
As an impulse Heißdampfrückstoß is planned. No expensive and heavy engines must be installed, and there are no wearing parts. Water is heated up before the start in a closed receiver on a temperature of 500 to 1,000 degrees. It provides while stamping out about tiltable nozzles as a superheated steam for the driving, with pleasure also for a quick impetus. To the landing valves are opened in the impetus body, so that air can stream.
The operating expenses of the system are very low, the environmental impacts like zero, machine noise is excluded. Besides, with transports about wide distances the wind currents ruling in each case can be used. Starts and landings can take place at any place. No border is put upwards to the possible load-carrying capacity. Thus there is technically no obstacle to build balls with a radius of 1,000 meters. Then the pay load lies with some millions metric tons. Besides, several unities can be joined for Schwersttransporte. These are absolutely new dimensions which will also lead to the Revolutionierung of the whole majority ship journey.

Another economic aspect is from big meaning. With the customary airships which are pursued with gases huge costs result for the gas filling. Besides, large amounts of gas must be blown out to be able to land. For the new start must be filled up according to a lot of gas. With the project VACUUCRAFT these costs are cancelled completely.
The future with VACUUCRAFT looks thus: The streets are free for the private motor traffic, the rivers and canals can be used by sports skippers, the dangerous ocean-going ship journey becomes widely superfluous. The construction of airships is also trendsetting for the personal transport. With the entsprechenden constructions the passenger's space can be integrated in the lower part of the ball. Start roads and land roads become superfluous.
Another area of application for VACUUCRAFT is the transport of rockets in the stratosphere. From there they can be begun cost-saving in the orbit. And this is not for a long time everything, the application possibilities are almost boundless.

VACUUCRAFT
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