“a bunch”?
Container ships can carry over 200K tons
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4am@lemm.ee 7 months agoIf they send a bunch of them and they replace container ship traffic, however- how much less pollution is that?
Not saying they don’t face an extremely uphill battle to scale enough for that to make sense (we all know the green angle alone won’t be enough even if it should be…)
PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 months ago
If they are fully automated and solar powered, might be useful for shipping on the cheap if you have a swarm of it.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
A standard twenty-foot cargo container can carry ~20000 lbs (10 tons). This airship can’t even match half the capacity of one container. Modern cargo ships carry thousands of those containers, the largest about 24000. You would need to build 40000 airships to get roughly the carrying capacity of one container ship.
This isn’t an uphill battle, it’s completely infeasible.