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For the heck of it, I compared this to what it would have taken to ship the SI2 via container ship. Apparently, a container ship can move a ton of cargo 500 mil
by trothamel 10y ago
For the heck of it, I compared this to what it would have taken to ship the SI2 via container ship. Apparently, a container ship can move a ton of cargo 500 miles on a gallon of fuel, so to ship the SI2 the entire distance of it's trip would take about 120 gallons of fuel.
The container ship would have been significantly faster, taking 50 days to complete the trip, versus over 500.
- greendesk 10y agoSI2 was the first time a trip around the world without chemical fuel was attempted. Container ships move much more than that, leveraging the scale of cargo transport. When the same amount of cargo is moved by non-chemical means, I'd be interested to compare the two.
- SeanDav 10y agobut the solar plane does not need 100 million years to replace its fuel...