Revolution in the Skies: Vacuum Buoyancy and the Future of Airships

This video presents the revolutionary idea of an airship that generates lift through vacuum. An ultra-light and stable frame, similar to a fullerene, could withstand the forces of a vacuum. The possibility of combining several such buoyancy bodies and creating an independently rising and landing airship is also presented. Finally, the idea of a city in the clouds or a rocket launch and landing platform is discussed. Share your opinion in the comments! Thanks for watching.

[@jamesheartney9546]

You don't need a full vacuum. If the mass of displaced air is more than the weight of the structure, it'll float. If your buckyball weighs 1000 grams, and you remove 1010 grams of air from it, you should get positive buoyancy, even if that's not all the air inside the buckyball.

[@XYalexYX79]

Great video, great idea and great production of the video!! As requested, I am sharing my thoughts: I assume the solid frame weight is higher as weight of the air volume in it. Independent of the size. That means it will not work out. Looking forward to see other comments as well.

[@onetruekeeper]

Using polymer technology we might be able to construct tiny buckyballs inside a vacuum chamber that is lighter than air and strong enough that it will not crush in normal air pressure. By being able to mass produce them we could use them to replace helium and hydrogen in dirigible airships. The larger buckballs could be used to pump air out to create a vacuum or allow air inside to make the craft lighter or heavier than air for take off and landing.

[@lionfire01]

What about a buckyball type aero gel ?

[@onetruekeeper]

@@lionfire01 Aerogel is still heavier than air but they could work on that.

[@sampleoffers1978]

Yeah video made wonder about small ones inside car frame or jacket...If lift works in water maybe it generates hydroelectric power if anchored.

[@StefanReich]

Is there a material out there for that "ultra-thin film"? My feeling is such a material may not exist

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Aerogel is the material.

[@gr33k]

there are metal aerogels now

[@adamrussell658]

No, its a fantasy.

[@veritatepax]

I had exactly the same thought and love the idea of floating cities in the sky. I think it is possible alltough a tough engineering challenge and quite expensive. But a marvel it will be!

[@h7opolo]

"'twill" indeed

[@NwoDispatcher]

its possible in venus' sky and jupiter

[@olsonspeed]

All that is needed for this craft to succeed is is a framework of Impervium, membrane of Unobtanium and pumps, motors, batteries and solar cells formed from Noweightium.

[@13gladiusToTheKnot]

"Aerogel" is a lighter than air gas. Replacing regular air with *"Aerogel"* will create the vacuum effect w/o an actual vacuum and that's what some of the new drones are...men on the ground playing with new technology

[@duncankilburn7612]

An airship with a set of evacuated spheres inside (in place of the normal gas bags) with an efficient onboard vacuum extraction system, would allow the airship to vent and expel for vertical greater control. This cant be done with traditional airships as H2 gas is highly explosive and He gas is highly expensive.

[@michaelhartjen3214]

This is how ALL UAP's / UFO work, you just solved the biggest riddle of all time

[@user-xd4rs6vr4n]

how do they move tho

[@Curious_Skeptic]

@michaelhartjen3214 aerogel as well. So sad so many are fooled.

[@juki0h391]

We need to create force fields. This would be able to contain the vacuum.

[@adamrussell658]

You dont actually get much more buoyancy using vacuum than you do using hydrogen. Its not the weight, its the difference in weight. Hydrogen is 10% as heavy as air, which means that going to vacuum only gains you 10%. And to make the structure capable of withstanding atmospheric pressure is nigh impossible. It will almost certainly be heavier than a balloon, which negates the buoyancy gain and then some.

[@NwoDispatcher]

how about a partial helium vacuum at elevated temperatures?

[@Dalton-su7pr]

You're missing the point, we don't need it to be better than hydrogen, we don't even need it to be as good as hydrogen, we just need it to be cheaper than helium, we use helium because it doesn't explode like hydrogen but my god is it expensive, you wouldnt believe how expensive blimp maintanace is, the stuff constantly leaks no matter what because of the small atom size so you have to sink millions of dollars into huge refills, and because 95% of the worlds helium is lest over millitary stockpile from the interwar period, its only going to get more expensive as that runs out and we have to start mining it again

[@aaronnunn5240]

Aeroalloy

[@markoszouganelis5755]

Thank you!

[@storm_shadow78]

That's UFOs explained TicTac anyone.🛸

[@mikegLXIVMM]

Will it work? Has anyone tried this?

[@codetech5598]

_"This video presents the revolutionary idea of an airship that generates lift through vacuum."_ Hardly revolutionary. It was proposed over 300 years ago in 1670.

[@adamwiggins9865]

So this is what they’ve seen hovering for hours at a time in the new year of 2025. I knew it was explainable

[@مصطفى-غ7ز6ق]

If we had 100 big balloon with heated air in large circle gether with each other could we use it as leftter to left a rocket in the middle of it to far distance up the air

[@danielt.8573]

Fun stuff to speculate about but unrealistic. What material can those spheres be made of?

[@Deontjie]

Dreams....

[@Italianjedi7]

Isn’t it pronounced like BOY-uncy?

[@rethinkscience8454]

The mass of the area of it surface must weigh less than 90 grams per meter cubed and the tensile strength has to be greater than 14.5 psi or 1000kpa or 10 meters of water pressure

[@pyrodice]

Let's assume that's true. Do you think something like this could be produced?

[@rethinkscience8454]

@@pyrodice - I like the concept but it would be almost impossible to make

[@h7opolo]

you showed me my dreams

[@Marco-xz7rf]

yes please. Was thinking about this a few years ago that this shouldn't be to hard to produce. Design a 3D structure similar to a honeycomb so probably what was shown in the video already is good enough or close to it. Also i thought about using ultra heated gas. Only problem would be to have a really really good isolation but then you wouldn't need a strong structure as the pressure inside is equal to the pressure outside. when the isolation is good enough you only need a little bit of energy to maintain current heat level. If you want to go higher, just heat it more and let an over pressure valve release unneeded hot gas. Heating the gas is don on ground, so most of the energy to travel get come from ground infrastructure. Once in the air solar panels should be able to create enough energy for zero emission flight at day. The shape should be aerodynamically so that in the case of a complete pressure loss, the vehicle itself when high enough can glide to a safe landing, if the area is flat enough or maybe, depending on the motors used, they could be over driven for a short time to enable a soft straight landing.

[@h7opolo]

almost as if the truth is self-evident yet suppressed by the industry profiteers of capitalism, those evil swine

[@alexandrosfilth7042]

I'm the inventor of vacuum I Airship tech. Can't wait to share it with the world

[@nickcochrane6568]

Unless you can produce large sheets of 100% perfect monolayer graphene (which I'm guessing you can't), good luck

[@gerry5134]

A floating city would get blown around all over the place

[@benzukkerman4996]

not actually revolutionary because it was invented in 1850 so idkn why u gotta be like this.

[@rr13431]

As a mechanical engineer I see this as primarily a buckling strength problem. I’m sure the calculations could be done to determine practicality. Has anyone seen them?

[@futurunnerxiii6618]

But why? Why u ask ppl in comm section? .... Aeroaloy is a thing and Vaccum baloon drone is a thing... Is not a mater of opinion...

[@SimonHollandfilms]

i agree...aeroaloy drones

[@Канал-ц2к5к]

А не проще просто стравливать водород по мере подъёма, чтобы давление внутри и снаружи было одинаково. В теории так можно достигнуть практически ваккума. Потомучто атмосфера в основном состоит из азота который тяжелее водорода при одинаковом давлении. Таким образом стратостаты и летают. Рекорд 53 км. Ограничевает только вес самой оболочки.

[@realdbcooper3423]

i had this idea ages ago, people just laughed at me or thought i was crzy, that there was no possible structure able to withstand the atmosphere. its a cool idea, but the structure might be heavy therfore increasing the boyuncy,

[@codetech5598]

I hope your "ages ago" means over 300 years ago since the idea was proposed in 1670.

[@robrussell8515]

we have been waiting over 100 years to solve this one

[@ItsPersonal-d7n]

If it work, reliable enough. Build one for flat earth people so they can go to pass Antarctica that its not a wall or edge of earth.

[@worldoftourism5182]

Super bro

[@thomaspflasterer7366]

Thermal is the only way to go

[@terryholt9469]

Tic tac tic tac tic tac tic tac. . . . Aerogel drones

[@gkiosseopoulos]

Wenn die Produktion im Weltraum stattfindet, ist das Vacuum schon drin. Dann, langsam runter, bis die Belastungsgrenze erreicht ist.

[@XYalexYX79]

Und dann bloß nicht an der Atmosphäre verbrennen

[@gkiosseopoulos]

@@XYalexYX79 Das brennen der Landefähre entsteht durch die hohe Geschwindigkeit.

[@JonathanTyndallNC]

They have achieved this 2025 aerogel balloons exist

[@VIJEAR]

Interesting.

[@akinin1947]

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[@Daniel-di5ek]

Or a two seater Get humble

[@geraldblunt9022]

BULL