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So what? While the convenience of air travel is nice, I think the environmental cost right now is too great -- don't get me wrong, I love being able to hop on
by lsllc 6y ago
So what? While the convenience of air travel is nice, I think the environmental cost right now is too great -- don't get me wrong, I love being able to hop on a plane and travel to say France (not that I can do that anymore with C19). It's somewhat selfish though, there's a pretty decent CO2 cost associated with it.
Maybe I get to go overseas if I make a commitment to offsetting the CO2 that I use (e.g. carbon credits) ... but that's hardly very progressive (why should only the wealthy only get to travel).
I suppose we could try to clean up shipping [bunker fuel] so we could go via some sort of gas turbine / wind powered cruise ship.
Or maybe this change in economic fortunes makes solar powered airships viable! Slow(-ish), but clean (& maybe fun!), I'm thinking the Mark Twain airship in "The Long Earth".
... I think I like the Mark Twain airship idea ... it sounds fun.
- TheCapeGreek 6y agoThis would only work in a culture that fully embraces remote working, and the ships would need high availability bandwidth that doesn't cost insane amounts for terrible speeds. This is because there's I'd either have to waste a week or two of my leave time just traveling, or would have to convince my employer to let me work remotely.
- lsllc 6y agoNot sure how this is different from a cruise-ship but I don't see why between satellites and high-altitude stationary relays (or something like Tesla Starlink) couldn't work. For sure though, it's a different life-pace.