• NaibofTabr
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    1 year ago

    replace container ship traffic

    A single 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.