HELIUM FOR AIRSHIPS
CUTTING OUT COSTLY LOSS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPTRIopt.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 31st October. The War Department has announced the perfection of a device for conserving helium in dirigibles. The invention will retrieve the moisture in the exhaust gases from engines, thus rendering unnecessary the so-called valving of helium, which permitted some gas' to escape in order to compensate for the weight of fuel consumed by the engines
As helium costs something like 2s a cubic foot, and it is only about twice as heavy as hydrogen and one-seventh of the weight of air, .the cost of releasing helium to compensate for, the ,loas of weight due to the consumption of fuel is evidently very serious. The recovery of the water from the exhaust gases enaßles tfiis loss to be compensated for as tho water is formed by the combinatioA of the hydrogen in the fuel and the oxygen in the air used hi the engine.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 7
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160HELIUM FOR AIRSHIPS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 7
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