How do you take care of hundreds of thousands of disaster refugees? It's not like you can plop down a coal power plant and fire it up wherever it's needed. Or can you? Andrew Leinonen has put together a strong concept design for an airship covered in solar panels that can be flown into a disaster area, anchored in, and immediately begin to serve power to the rescue effort.
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Solar Power Generating Blimp for Disasters
(via www.ecogeek.org)
Submitted by jcs44 on Mon, 2008-05-19 22:40. | Tags: technology | blimp | burma | china | cyclone | earthquake | natural diaster relief | natural_disaster | solar energy | solar power