So I had a brief conversation with Arthur Brauchle (Head of electrics and avionics)and we talked about some problems with the idea:
- Laws: You are currently not allowed to use anything besides pure helium
- Osmosis: Natural separation would occur, so you would need to make sure to mix helium and hydrogen constantly.
- Cleaning: They have to constantly monitoring the humidity of the helium and have to remove it with a specialized machine on a humid day. This would not work with a mixed gas (with the current design).
- (Speculation) Do not mix it in the first place: Create a sealed off hydrogen balloon in a helium balloon. This would have other problem like different expansion based on temperature. The devil is in the details here...
- Laws: You are currently not allowed to use anything besides pure helium
- Osmosis: Natural separation would occur, so you would need to make sure to mix helium and hydrogen constantly.
- Cleaning: They have to constantly monitoring the humidity of the helium and have to remove it with a specialized machine on a humid day. This would not work with a mixed gas (with the current design).
- (Speculation) Do not mix it in the first place: Create a sealed off hydrogen balloon in a helium balloon. This would have other problem like different expansion based on temperature. The devil is in the details here...