How many liters of helium is needed to lift 1kg of goods at 20 Celcius?

You need 914 litres of helium to lift 1kg. This is only slightly less than 1 cubic metre which give you an idea of the blimp size you need. How did I get there?

You need 163.3 g of helium to lift 1kg, helium density is 0.1786 g/L, that gives 914 litres neglecting the weight of the blimp so you want to make it a a little bigger. The sanity check is this agrees with How Stuff Works approximation of 1 gram of lifting force for each litre of helium Interesting blimp fact: The GZ-20A size blimps (Spirit of Goodyear; Spirit of Innovation; Spirit of America) are 192 feet long, 55 feet in diameter, and 59.5 feet high, with 202,700 cubic feet (5739 cubic metres) of helium and a gross weight of 12,840 lbs (5905 kg).

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You need about 700g of helium to generate 1kg lift (assuming the helium is at the same temperature and pressure as the surrounding air) See here: newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy9947....

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