Pond Inlet, Nunavut
Pond Inlet is one of the most picturesque
communities in Canada’s Arctic. However, because of its isolation the cost
of food and other materials such as construction supplies can be much higher
than that of southern Canada. Milk is close to $4 a litre and carbonated drinks
can be as much as $4.50 a can. There are environmental costs as well, because
supplies must be brought in by ship during the short ice-free summer season or
even more expensively and energy-intensively by air for the rest of the year.
Hence the possible appeal of low carbon
airship transit. Hard to say how kinetic
energy storage devices, such as flywheels, fit into any of this, but it is
known that they have better lifetime cycles and higher power and capacity than
static energy storage devices such as batteries or capacitors have.
