I actually did an estimate of that. Looking at a 50-tonne-equivalent lift, in my view, we need somewhere between 100 and 250 of these airships right now. If we had them available, they could be used.
Mining would probably be the biggest single use. There are many locations where, as Mr. Russell mentioned, you cannot get access to the mine and therefore you can't open the mine because you can't afford to build a road to the mine. If the airships were available, you'd fly over all the difficult areas, bring in your equipment, produce concentrates, and carry out the mineral concentrates on a year-round basis.
So it's anybody's guess, I suppose, but adding up all the various potential uses, between sovereignty, service to the northern communities, the mining, oil and gas, building pipelines, building electrical transmission lines, setting up wind turbines, and all the different things that could be done, it would be between 100 and 250 airships right now.
With all technologies, especially these sorts of game-changing technologies, you don't really find out until you start how many other uses there can be. Once the airships get to a lift size of around 100 to 150 tonnes, they will start crossing oceans.
We see them in the longer term for not just domestic Canadian use; we'll be using airships to lift goods to China or to Europe, or perhaps move back and forth between the tropical zones.
We might actually get tomatoes that taste like tomatoes someday if we bring them by airship.