My question came from an idea to set up salt water mining or salt refining plants on a coast line in an arid region of the world, concentrate the brine using electrolysis, releasing or harvesting the split O2 and filling airships with excess hydrogen "having collapsible envelopes for the return...
I knew about Zepplins design my idea is to use a lighter than air frame work to build a semi rigid envelope to house a lighter than air gas, the idea would be to increase the amount of cargo mass- envelope size
Can you use a vacuum, or lighter than air gas within a tubular frame network to neutralize the apparent weight of the frame? If this is possible what is thee smallest possible size you could make this frame, I understand that the more you scale it up the lighter proportionately the frame would...