• Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    I once heard of a giant kite technology like this called “sails” but it was retired in favor of fossil fules

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    This has been in sci-fi books for ages and I am all for it. Airships, slow travelling, all of it.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve seen stories like this before. I want to see a story about something like this actually in widespread use.

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    I’ve thought about something else. Instead of using huge heavy costly cargo ships, just put each package on a solar powered water drone and make thousands of them. Let them run on solar and control them by setting a GPS goal. Track them by satellite. Collect them when they get there. I can wait a week more.

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      Idk man. The largest container ships carry ~40k shipping containers. Do you really think we could make 40k-ish solar boats and unload them efficiently? I think a better solution would be to transition the ships away from fossil fuels.

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        I would like to see a plan for a port that can handle 40k vessels per day.

        Perhaps if we split it up to a thousand mini ports. In those ports, then maybe we could have small cars pick up each individual package, as trucks are so large and inflexible. :D