Timeline for Why can't hot air balloons fly higher then helium balloons?
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| Jan 12, 2022 at 15:04 | comment | added | Emre | now if you combine the two and make a hot helium ship (filled with not just regular helium, but really hot helium) then you'd get a tiny bit more lift. Maybe almost enough to offset the cost of heating elements and power source... just maybe. | |
| May 30, 2019 at 23:36 | comment | added | Bob Jacobsen | If you replace a mole of air with a mole of helium, you get about 12gm of lift not matter what altitude you’re at. The issue is how far an equal-pressure balloon can expand before it can no longer contain the volume of gas. | |
| S May 30, 2019 at 21:35 | history | suggested | Ryan Jensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed inappropriate commas, changed incorrect form of "weight"
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 19:19 | vote | accept | Árpád Szendrei | ||
| Jul 19, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | V.F. | @CriglCragl Looks like it has best performance in fiction. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | CriglCragl | even if the weight of the gas inside a balloon was zero Like for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 11:29 | history | answered | V.F. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |