@martior@Willrandship Hence my statement about prioritizing. His entire argument is about not having to wait for an entire freighter to be loaded. But, if instead, you have to wait for your batch to be unloaded and then hauled it’s moot.
@Willrandship@erroneous_input Still think you can do that somewhat. At least in time. Just need a highway near by. But preferably railroad. But the size of the port will be a lot smaller then normal ports. Highway just in time ones can be super small.
@martior@erroneous_input That was in response to my claim that you could do container shipping far further in with low-draft single container ships and avoid the big ports entirely.
@erroneous_input@Willrandship That is for internal shipping in the us isn’t it? Not sure there is a big untapped market for internal us freight by sea.
@erroneous_input@Willrandship It doesn’t even have to go to the us. My trial would be from Denmark west coast via somewhere on Iceland to Sydney (north) Nova Scotia. If that works we need to find a good port in northern Europe with rail and refurbish the rail line to Sydney.
@martior@Willrandship What you’re saying wouldn’t work for any sort of international shipping because such automation will be, ostensibly, blocked. Any local water use would by restricted under the jones act. So, what you’re left with is coastal international shipping. Still needs integration
@Willrandship I think fully sealed battery electric and slow moving might work, but haven’t dont the calculations. No need for oxygen so can be very simple boats. Just need one or more snorkel with gps antennas sticking out of the water. You make it up vs big ships on port wait time of ~0
@Willrandship@erroneous_input You have assembly line loading and unloading. Maybe even with sleds for the boats to bring them ashore for quick maintenance. Think of a car wash that unloads the boat and cleans it. Each loading bay has multiple times the capacity of a crane for a big ship, no idle time.
@erroneous_input What, because of fuel efficiency gains?
I figure you just have stations set up at ports specific to your shipping company, they dock there, and they get loaded/unloaded with a crane like normal.
I think there is a market for high speed shipping, faster than traditional cargo ships but cheaper than air freight.
Get it under $5k a trip, China<->US, and you're beating air freight prices, and if you can keep the ship moving 65MPH (~56 knots) the whole way you'll get there twice as fast. Potentially <7 day shipping.
Keep an autonomous ship in good condition and it could be bringing in $250k/year in revenue.
Lenovo announced the world’s first “rollable laptop” at CES. The flexible OLED display has small motors in the hinge and can stretch up to a 17-inch screen.
Financial modelling on Excel will never be the same.
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@martior ok, let's put our money where our mouths are: i'll be the if statement influencer, you be the while loop infuencer and we'll meet back here in a year and compare how much we've influenced