Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Airship.diy: an open notebook for a live-aboard hydrogen airship
A detailed engineering model for a hydrogen airship designed to house two people for a year, run on sunlight and fuel cells, and land on water.
Why it surfacedThis is not a concept-renderer landing page: its mass budget, physics simulation, interactive cutaway, energy loop, and design comparisons are presented as an open engineering argument. It also leaves a major problem visibly unresolved—the daily temperature swing can shift lift by roughly two tonnes—making the project more compelling than a frictionless vision piece.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.