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Check this out, its real and not vaporware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yw4Qp8bX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yw4Qp8bX4
by sn_master 6y ago
Check this out, its real and not vaporware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yw4Qp8bX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yw4Qp8bX4
- elihu 6y agoYeah, having a granny gear would help out a lot. I assume the Tesla is most likely to be direct-drive. That demo with the Volvo was 750 tons. According to Wikipedia, the Ever Given has a deadweight tonage of just under 200,000 tons. That's the cargo capacity, not including the ship itself. Let's say the ship and cargo is around 250,000 tons, that means you'd need about 333 of those Volvo trucks to drag it, assuming about the same amount of friction pulling the ship as a truck pulling a trailer. That's probably optimistic, so you might need more like 500 to 1,000 trucks to get it unstuck. In terms of realistic options, at this point I'm thinking they're most likely to get it out by pulling it with a lot of heavy earthmoving equipment and/or tugboats while they bring in some dredging equipment to shift the sand or whatever it's stuck on out of the way. If it's run aground on something solid they can't vaccum up with dredging equipment, I don't know what they'll do. It'll probably just be stuck for a long time until they can unload it or something. On the other hand, maybe it'll just come loose at some high tide. I mean, however it got stuck it seems like it should be at least theoretically possible to get unstuck.
- sn_master 6y ago> you'd need about 333 of those Volvo trucks to drag it You can re-use the trucks tho, the operation doesn't have to be in parallel (and it can't anyway, because the containers are stacked).