Timeline for What vehicle would be the best one to start a >1000 km travel in a post apocalyptic zombie situation?
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| Aug 12, 2018 at 22:09 | comment | added | KGM | If you have got enough balloons :) | |
| Aug 12, 2018 at 21:30 | comment | added | Luatic | Major problem is that they depend on wind. You need some propellers, I'd say. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:09 | comment | added | KGM | why repair on ground? they never land! | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 19:52 | comment | added | CactusCake | How long does it take to get a hot air balloon off the ground? OP states having to repair the vehicle for more than 1h have to be considered as game over. and The party should travel to at least 5-6 different cities. So this thing needs to be landed and reflown several times, and you have to get it off the ground in under 60 minutes every time... | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 9:54 | comment | added | Erik | If you think it's insane to travel even 1km by balloon... people have flown around the world in them. 1000km should at least be doable (although experience might be a problem). eballoon.org/flights/around-the-world-flights.html | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 21:35 | comment | added | KGM | I know how balloon works, if you want heat to get into, well make hole where hot air gets in bigger. also, if you fly high, no one hears you! (plus if you use liquid fuel in barrel youre very silent anyway, compared to cars!) | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 16:43 | comment | added | DJSpud | Have you ever been in or near a hot air balloon? They are no where near silent. Also you can't simply burn a fire below the balloon and expect the take flight. I'm assuming OP just has absolutely no experience ballooning. You don't just need heat. You need a massive amount of heat precisely directed into the balloon and not around it or onto it. | |
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| Jul 26, 2018 at 9:37 | comment | added | KGM | (most heat they produce when filled with zombie voodka *:-) ) | |
| Jul 26, 2018 at 9:37 | comment | added | KGM | i think firebarrels are a quite save solution producing lots of heat. | |
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 22:39 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | Good luck burning that zombie oil in a way that sufficiently heats the air in the balloon, without simultaneously grilling the passengers and/or destroying the rigging. | |
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 9:15 | comment | added | KGM | fat has an energy density of 37 MJ per kg, your propane has an energy density of 46.4 MJ per kg, I don't see such a big difference. this means that you just need to carry about twenty percent less fuel with you (mass, not volume) plus fat does not need a heavy gas bottle as fuel tank. => fat would work for shure plus fat is easy to find and produce (zombie oil *: ) ) | |
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 8:10 | comment | added | Ruadhan | I invite you to examine the concepts of Energy Density and the Rocket Equation, trashbags full of combustible junk/corpses aren't going to have the energy density or capability to release heat quickly enough to fly a hot air balloon, much less one big enough to lift their own weight! There's a reason that no hot air balloon ever created has run on a wood-stove. Gas-burners in hot air balloons put out a terrific amount of focused heat thanks to a great deal of clever engineering and the energy-density of propane. I'm afraid that much like your balloon, your answer is very unlikely to fly! | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 22:14 | comment | added | Jared K | I advise against your style of bolding words. It makes the text visually cluttered, and hard/cumbersome to read. The boldness also loses its value when it is used so much. If every sentence is emphasized, none of them are. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 18:21 | comment | added | KGM | space is not the problem. Imagine large trashbags filled with some junk hanging down. the junk could be used for fuel. and if the wind changes unexpectedly, well, use the anchors. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | Ruadhan | I think you'd have to be pretty desperate to use hot air balloons. fun as the idea is. You definitely couldn't use just any fuel, the balloons use kerosene or similar liquid/gas fuel because it's the most space-efficient way to generate that much heat. Even if you could fill the balloon with hot air on the ground using local materials you'd still need more standard fuels to stay in the air. Next, you can't control direction, it's slow as hell, and if the wind is too high the balloon itself will collapse and you die. You'd have to be insane to travel 1k km by balloon. | |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 10:53 | history | answered | KGM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |