<story><title>How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe</title><url>http://www.fogonazos.es/2008/05/how-to-move-200-ton-spectrometer-across.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aylons</author><text>Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from&amp;#x2F;to specific locations far from the shore:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-187/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rt.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, after hearing about this comeback for at least a decade, I&amp;#x27;m a bit skeptic it will ever come true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fh973</author><text>One of these efforts graced the Berlin, Germany area with a huge hangar:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;CargoLifter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, they found a new use for the structure:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tropical_Islands_Resort&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe</title><url>http://www.fogonazos.es/2008/05/how-to-move-200-ton-spectrometer-across.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aylons</author><text>Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from&amp;#x2F;to specific locations far from the shore:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-187/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rt.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, after hearing about this comeback for at least a decade, I&amp;#x27;m a bit skeptic it will ever come true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seszett</author><text>The Zeppelin this article talks about could still only potentially lift 66 tonnes, less than a third of the weight of this spectrometer. But yeah, a zeppelin with sufficient lift would be a very good solution to this problem.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;edit&lt;/i&gt; yes, &amp;quot;over the long term&amp;quot; they say they &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; build an airship with a 500 tons lift capability, but that seems far away.</text></comment>