World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing
World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing
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World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing
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Nice, though I wonder about reliability of this thing, as well as capital costs. In any case, an auxiliary motor is a must, and good thing they have that too.
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We did without auxiliary motors for a long time. The only reason a motor would be needed is if everyone is too greedy to pay for the work to be done right (having a big enough crew for rowing).
But the crew can't stop the world from being greedy, so it makes sense that they're using sails and a motor to improve on what they can.
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I'm pretty sure rowboats are absolutely not viable for moving thousands of tons of cargo. Also, they existed because there was a huge supply of slave labor.
That's not to mention the larger crew doing hard manual labor would require much more food, which is a sort of fuel in itself, one that is not commonly produced in an environmentally sustainable way.
Electric motor seems to be the superior option all-round (except for energy density in storage, where diesel still reigns supreme by a large margin)
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You'll need engines for manoeuvering. Other ways are just painful and not as safe.
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Now if only the green hydrogen was there already.
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It is! But the extent to which it is used is limited by the efficiency losses that come with electrolysis, logistics, and reverse conversion.
I assume it could still be useful in applications that require long hauls, as dragging a heavy and expensive battery around can negate efficiency benefits over the long runs.
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The is very cool! Now make one 10 times the size and put sales on all the existing cargo ships too.
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Some of the best ideas are old ones reimagined for today and tomorrow.
Gotta be careful with that though.
Or you end up with things like this:
For Profit Prison -> Slavery
This era honestly sucks so much, the only way the next era can show a lot of progress is if it shows a lot of reversion.
"What if we took the sails off every fucking cargo ship?" is a sick question, and when society has answered that with "yeah let's do it," the sickness runs a lot deeper than that. We've just been taking insane/stupid ideas and running with them for a long time.
I think youre reading way too much into having sails or not lol
I would not want to go back to that era of illiteracy, poverty and disease.
Adapting old ideas into the modern world where it makes sense is good though