Hello everyone, I came across the aerocene project a small while ago, but since 2005 or so after a childhood project with some close friends in trying to build a hovercraft and failing badly it, all hope wasn’t lost. Since then, I’ve been fascinated with the coanda effect of flight, creating the lift in hovercrafts. A lot has changed in the past 12 yrs, but goals and aspirations once evoked so to say remained the same. In the recent few years, I’ve been deeply attached to creating sustainaible tech, making small changes around the local environment, fastly degrading in my home town - Mumbai, India. There have been huge disturbances all across the globe in the last decade as well, which led me to develop an idea of an air, heat, powered mode of transportation or something that can make tasks easy and without any harm to anything or any being around. After months of research of existing ideas of The airships, zeppelins, balloons, vtol crafts, I thought of devising my own design. My original idea really came from the simplest thing I saw around - a candle lantern being drawn into the sky on a cold winter festivity. It is mesmerizing how something so simple like a soap bubble floating which works on the same principle as the lantern, heat being trapped within a confined place, creating float.
I was deeply intriuged when I heard about Tomas Saraceno and about Aerocene, it felt like something I was on the common page about all along. I’ve been hoping with my project, some days humans would leave earth to let itself heal and repopulate with its own beauty, while humans, who are so chained and shackled in our times, would have a chance to have a better life. I wished the people of planet earth be given a chance - to live on earth with earthly possesions and constantly having to strive and suffer for the things they may not need or have a chance of becoming travellers, sky and space explorers, and have the ability to do it with ease and without having to destroy anything in trying to achieve that goal. A sustainaible and self contained and fullfilling environment can be achieved even in the skies. I hope to learn more from this forum and develop my own ideas too, help out in any way I can. I trully believe that some day, there will be enough effort and knowledge collected that cummutively it will profit the project and make that goal a reality
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