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no, they actually do mean kites
as in, a loooooooooong piece of steel cable with the sail at the end of it
of course it's ~basically a sailing ship~ but you can't stick masts on a container ship, that is a disaster waiting to happen for so many reasons
you'd only really get one point to anchor the mast, and that is right where it meets the deck, the containers get it the way of any ropes you might wish to use further up
you'd have to build entirely new container ships or some sort of ... mast container frame to account for the fact that the ships are built to exactly fit the containers, and sticking a mast in the middle of it will mess with that entire system by not being the size of a container
loading and unloading around the masts is going to be hell for the crane drivers and there will be damage to everything given the speed they usually work with, so every harbor will hate you if their cranes even have the height to work around the masts
and if you still decide to stick masts on a container ship, they won't be easily and quickly removeable, so you have to recertify and reclassify the entire ship, and it's going to take ages and ages to do properly, and they'll have to figure out how to do it so it's either expensive as fuck or they may refuse entirely. a steel cable on a winch is by definition removeable (that is, uh, uprollable?) so you don't have to deal with any of this nonsense. hell, if you calculate the pre-determined breaking point properly, it'll even fail safely
this isn't ~ooooooooooh we invented sails! we're the smartest~
this is "hey, we finally figured out how to do this tried and tested thing in a way that works with the circumstances we're working under". it's a good thing, even if it is presented badly
Thank-you for that info ^ because this is very heartening then. Transport really is so awful rn in what it’s doing to our atmosphere. Looked this up and this is actually a really neat prospect for the planet if it gets implemented.
oh that is very cool actually!! i fully retract my reactionary bullshit meme in favor of the new information, thank you :D
"How does that tiny sail pull that giant ship?"
Well, it doesn't. It helps the existing engines, which results in fuel savings. It's a sail-assisted ship.
Kinda like how solar panels on an hybrid car are nowhere near enough to run the car(*), but they help stretch the battery life and reduce the amount of fuel needed.
(*) Roughly speaking, even covering the entire top surface of a sedan-sized car in solar panels is gonna top out around one horsepower. I expect the container sail kites will have a similarly "tiny fraction, but every little big helps" effect.
ack oooguh help the wind keeps blowing me
blow on yr screen every couple seconds to simulate annoying an anime boy
i came up with this idea when i was very sleep deprived and i then spent like 30 minutes intermittently blowing on my screen. i was very entertained, at one point i laughed so hard i almost lost my voice. i figured that this was just a symptom of being very easily amused due to my condition but now that im awake again i see that this is easily the best post ive ever made. i have peaked, i will never post anything this good again. fffffffffffffffff. ffffffffffff. ffffffffffffffffffff. ffffffffffffffffffffffffff
I don't think this is what Lois meant when she said "Me, you, and Superman in a room together." >///<
This has definitely already been done by now but I don't care I'm excited for this movie
Absolutely DELIGHTED by Damian's weapons of choice for each of his mind-controlled Robins, "For Tim, a cloak that makes you invisible, so I don't have to see you anymore. For Jason, a giant stabby fork, have fun with that. For Stephanie, a stick to beat people with, it has feathers, you'll probably like that. And for Richard Grayson, the most powerful weapon of all, because he's the only one of you that I actually like and he deserves the best."
