Vacua Dirigibles

In a new airship, Vacua Dirigibles, vacuum bags displace air with a vacuum more buoyant than helium or hydrogen dirigibles. A vacuum bag comprises a vacuum membrane film wrapped around a three dimensional (3D) frame to displace air. One hexagonal vacuum bag is illustrated above. Complete control of buoyancy, including free fall, is provided by electrically flashing Xenon within a vacuum bag. At rest, the partial vacuum “vacua” is air buoyant and will remain an airship. Flashing xenon from small voltage inputs controls the buoyancy and orientation of this dirigible.

Vacua Dirigible airships can charge batteries from airborne static electricity and then flash xenon to free fall tack through the air vertically like a sailboat tacks horizontally on the water. Over time, while charging batteries from static electricity, you control whether to fly or flash xenon to gracefully drop towards a terrestrial location. DO NOT TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN – DEATH OR INJURY MAY RESULT.

The Buckyball type sphere illustrated here is an optional airship design provided with twenty hexagon curves extruded to a point and twelve pentagon curves extruded to a point. Each hexagon surface is an electric circuit shared by the surrounding vacuum bags to save weight, reduce tension stresses between bags, and electrically excite Xenon gas to control air buoyancy. These vacuum tight bag membranes are individual electric circuits that “flash” Xenon to fill the vacuum with energy, therefore reducing lift and gracefully controlling orientation and altitude of the sphere, including free fall. These thirty two vacuum bags are manufactured from vacuum tight six-member graphene carbon composite film membranes.

Sphere end caps are provided to attach cargo and add any aerodynamic geometry to the sphere. With aerodynamic additions, Vacua Dirigibles can glide down to a landing.

Xenon gas within the bags above “flashes” from small voltage input, reducing buoyancy. The less buoyant bags rotate to the bottom of the sphere below.

I am David Zornes, Founder of Vacua Dirigibles and an inventor. I am trying to invent fundamental advances in materials that provide optimization of most products we use.