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I doubt the Valiant is eco-friendly since the Master designed it. Sorry, OP.

....that's the Helicarrier?

To be fair to anon up there, I actually had to study the photo for a bit to decide which weird and wonderful sci-fi sky ship/hovercraft that actually is. I know it was named, but my brain still did not compute right away.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-04-16 23:21 (UTC) - Expand

Did you know that every km^2 of ocean is essentially its own ecosystem at the bacterial level? I definitely winced at the theater, thinking of all the larger animals (fish and other aquatic life) the propellers would've tore up as it rose and other ecological ramifications.

Just tell yourself it runs on Quantum Bullshit technology. Everything works better with Quantum. Except time travel, with that you might never return home.

Whether it is the Airborne Carrier from Dr Who, or the one from Marvel, or the one from Captain Scarlett, or even the one from Sky Captain, they all run on super secret Quantum technology developed in secret by the immortal universe hopping Nikola Tesla!

Tesla was of course universe hopping in hope of finding a single universe where Edison was not such a monumental douchebag who would rip him off. His impossible quest continues, somewhere out there in the multiverse...

(Anonymous) - 2013-04-17 00:13 (UTC) - Expand

Quantum bullshit >>>>>>> clean coal. Trufax.

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It runs on your salty tears.

I thought it ran on strong pornography?

Yeah, well, my first thought was 'hey, does this exist already or not...? Nah, it probably doesn't... does it?' Reality/fiction, how does it work again? I'll just go and study the old diagram...

I'm sure Tony could find a way to make it run on clean energy.

And my first thought on seeing it was ... You're launching/landing planes directly over a giant rotor generating enough downdraft (and thus sucking in enough air) to lift a carrier. Bduh?

SHIELD pilots must be getting mucho hazard pay just to go near the thing.

The joke is that since Tony designed that thing you better be as good at piloting as Rhodey. Anyone who flies into the rotor just wasn't good enough and we didn't need them anyway!

I think Tony Stark mentioned something about renewable energy in one of the Iron Man movies. I don't remember exactly (for once).

Think that was actually a throw-away line in the Avengers movie when he was bragging and showing off to irritate Captain America.

Doesn't Tony have a giant version of his implanted reactor running Stark Tower? And isn't he a consultant to Fury et al?

If the helicarrier isn't already running off one of his reactors, it will be soon. He'll probably replace the jumbo turbines with something a lot safer, quieter and friendlier to passing geese while he's at it.

It runs on comic's magic technology. I bet you it leaves the environment better than it found it.

At the very least, it's probably not much worse than, say, the average airline carrier. (Still bad, but, y'know...)

Though personally, I assumed it would run off technology similar to Tony's arc reactor (and/or it gains energy from stuff indirectly connected to Tony's kind of clean energy).

Don't worry, OP, the guy who made that thing is "kind of the only name in clean energy, right now", I'm sure it's okay. ;)

Eh? I didn't think Tony built the Helicarrier. If he built it, why did he have to hack it longhand when he came aboard? You'd think if he built the thing he'd have built himself a backdoor.

Rebuild it after the movie, however, I could see that. It was kind of in bits by the time Clint, Loki and the Hulk got through with it.

Re: This is Tony Stark we're talking about

(Anonymous) - 2013-04-17 04:52 (UTC) - Expand

Given what I know about aircraft carriers that stay in water (this anon lived on one, they're dirty as a used tampon and I promise you there's still conventional fuel involved, if only for the jets), all I can really say is that damn thing looks like an unholy maintenance NIGHTMARE and that it's completely unfeasible in every way (how do you do trash or sewage disposal on that thing?), but it looks damn cool anyway.

And the Rule of Cool is pretty much all that you need for CGI and Marvel.

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I've had the same thought, but given its size, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier cannot possibly run on fossil fuels. Even if the thing was mostly filled with fuel tanks, it would be able to fly for maybe (MAYBE) half an hour before they were sucked dry.

The only thing that would make it remotely feasible is it runs on some kind of hand-wavy technobabble like a big-ass arc reactor, and apparently those are some flavor of renewable (or at least minimally polluting), so actually, it probably does use renewable energy after all!

Lol I was thinking the same thing. But it's fictional, so I'm going with thinking that it's totally 100% eco-friendly.

Tony says in Avengers that he is 'pretty much the only name in clean energy right now', so since he wasn't involved in making the helicarrier, I assume it runs on fossil fuels. Which kind of sucks but SHIELD is sort of douchey, so it's not that surprising.

Maybe Tony will fix it up.