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I find this comment very puzzling. A team of experts spent months or years designing and building a ship. Are you really suggesting they just forgot about the
by zazen 10y ago
I find this comment very puzzling. A team of experts spent months or years designing and building a ship. Are you really suggesting they just forgot about the hydrodynamic drag? If the first thing that pops into your head was actually a "better investment", don't you think they might have managed to think of it too?
- zackmorris 10y agoI'm sure they optimized hydrodynamic drag too. My point was that aerodynamic drag is so much lower that the bow of the ship could have been shaped like a pokemon and it would have made almost no difference on overall efficiency. An analogy would be putting a nose cone on a train. It looks cool and everything but the train is still going to lose half its thermodynamic efficiency (or more) just burning oil. Whereas jumping to electric reclaims all that, and I was trying to make a similar point that higher gains might be found elsewhere for shipping.