Okay, Lets go for an easier representation of this scale. The author states that 100 Million dollars fits on a standard pallet. If we take a standard us pallet[

Okay, Lets go for an easier representation of this scale. The author states that 100 Million dollars fits on a standard pallet. If we take a standard us pallet[1], we find that within a standard container[2] we can fit 9 pallets[3]. There fore One Trillion Dollars will fit into 1 000 000 000 000 / (9 * 100 000 000) = 1111.111... containers. Lets round up to 1112 for the sake of transportation convenience. If we take a large container ship like the COSCO Guangzhou[4] we can see that it will cary 9450 TEU[5] containers. As you can see one of these large ships can carry 9450/1112 = 8.499 container loads of trillion dollars. From this we can see that I expected a large container ship to carry much less, so my conclusions is kind of out the window. Damn that is a big ship. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#ISO_pallets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#ISO_pallets [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit [3]http://www.epal-pallets.org/uk/produkte/vergleich.php http://www.epal-pallets.org/uk/produkte/vergleich.php [4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO_Guangzhou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO_Guangzhou [5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit