I'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 pokem

I'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.