Global Blimp Network Will Deliver Our Goods by 2020

They really won't, you know.

Current airships are ponderous beasts, even in moderately windy / bad weather condtions. The larger they are, the harder it'll be to moor.

Can you imagine a fully-loaded 747 swigning and bobbing around madly just a few dozen feet above your head as a ground crew tries to reel it in? Now imagine something twice as long and three times tall - because that's roughly the size of the pictured vehicle.

There are reasons we don't use airships - and the Hindenburg disaster ain't even in the top 10.

2020 !?!?!?!?!?

What have they been smoking over at Gizmodo? Do they think we have an unlimited amount of helium to fill and fly these things? After a quick review of the article, it is all just a crack pipe dream. These yahoos didn't even consider supply chain issues of the helium. Hydrogen is nice and plentiful but it has a public relations issue to overcome. Of course they didn't consider any analysis of real world operations either. At Gizmodo, every day is sunny with winds of 5 mph or less. And I didn't even consider the amortized cost per ton per mile. If there was a way to make money on this a "greedy" person would have already figured it out and been all over this like a fly on stink.