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    9 months ago

    Afaik, mostly for not being too efficient in a suboptimal environment. Also for having a limit on minimal size, but there has been an article somewhere, I’ll update if I find it

    Edit: haven’t found the article, but what I found is this. They fly relatively low (under 2 km), have a hard time going against wind, old ones also had trouble landing. Also contemporary ones are more of a hybrid of dirigible, plane, and helicopter, that probably makes them expensive, too. Existing airship infrastructure is also not suitable for them

    Edit2: oh, and some claim that dirigibles don’t work for commerce because commerce is too conservative, but it’s not too likely because there were news of dirigibles almost taking over the cargo transportation since like 1960s and it didn’t yet, so likely there are things to be solved