{"id":269642,"date":"2010-02-03T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/aircruise-a-sustainable-way-to-travel-in-utmost-luxury\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T02:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:20:42","slug":"aircruise-%e2%80%93-a-sustainable-way-to-travel-in-utmost-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269642","title":{"rendered":"Aircruise \u2013 A sustainable way to travel in utmost luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_uvat3_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Concept airship powered by hydrogen fuel cells and solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>The brainchild of designers at London-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymourpowell.com\/\">Seymourpowell<\/a>, the Aircruise is what the future of travel and hospitality might look like. Known as a giant and elegant \u201cClipper in the Clouds,\u201d the airship harvests solar energy, while its primary source of power is a hydrogen fuel cell drive system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_01_I2eQY_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_01\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Aircruise is a blend between an airship and a hotel, which offers the best in luxury in an eco-conscious manner. The zero-emission concept can cruise at around 90mph, which means a journey from London to New York will take about 37 hours. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_03_MhWuf_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_03\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Integrating four duplex apartments and five smaller apartments with a penthouse apartment, bar\/lounge\/communal areas, the Aircruise creates a luxury hotel in the skies. At 30m high, the giant airship features glass floors that offer breathtaking views from the sky.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_05_NcnJ3_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_05\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_02_rx3PB_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_02\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_04_e3FeW_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_04\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/03\/aircruise_06_DEoZL_58.jpg\" alt=\"aircruise_06\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedesignblog.org\/entry\/aircruise-hydrogen-airship-embarks-a-new-era-in-luxury-travel\/\">TheDesignBlog<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/7139342\/Aircruise-giant-hydrogen-airships-could-herald-a-new-era-in-luxury-travel.html\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Concept airship powered by hydrogen fuel cells and solar energy. The brainchild of designers at London-based Seymourpowell, the Aircruise is what the future of travel and hospitality might look like. Known as a giant and elegant \u201cClipper in the Clouds,\u201d the airship harvests solar energy, while its primary source of power is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}