"It was, 'Let me take the Alaska factor out of your problem,'"  he said of his decision to create PRL Logistics.

What does the above quote mean?

Has this blimp been tested in cold weather? No mention of, or video link of testing, even in normal weather.

How much taxpayer money is involved/invested? If ExxonMobil is paying the bill, no big deal.

Straightline hopefully will not become an ironic name, i.e. "straight line winds."

Is any statistical analysis available of an average number of days this ship might be operable, using data from the last 5 years?

The 90 percent reduction of operating costs sounds too good to be true.

There are probably plenty of projects in the Skunk Works, Lockheed's taxpayer funded Wonderland, that are not practical in the real world. They're certainly not engineered in the Arctic.