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Companies have enjoyed eating low-hanging fruit of building ever-larger cargo ships to reap the reqards of Economies of Scale, whild wholly ignoring the realitu
by mojomark 4y ago
Companies have enjoyed eating low-hanging fruit of building ever-larger cargo ships to reap the reqards of Economies of Scale, whild wholly ignoring the realitues of Diseconomies of Scale, which is what we're seeing now.
Not one to point out a problem without a proposed solution... there is a solution in extensible transport with distributed propulsion. The technology is ready. It has the potential to solve all of the author's stated issues, and if done correctly, will alleviate the 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry.
- andrekandre 4y ago> there is a solution in extensible transport with distributed propulsion. The technology is ready. It has the potential to solve all of the author's stated issues, and if done correctly, will alleviate the 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry. trains?
- mojomark 4y agoWell, more specifically, sea trains. Even more specifically, autonomous submersible sea trains. Sea trains ideally connected seemlessly intermodally to clean* land trains and trucks. *by "clean" I mean anything substantially cleaner than diesel combustion engines