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How much cargo, do you think, can this thing carry? A hint: The 1914 M-class Zeppelin (158 metre) had about 9 metric tons of useful load. A small "Handysize"
by FabHK 3y ago
How much cargo, do you think, can this thing carry?
A hint: The 1914 M-class Zeppelin (158 metre) had about 9 metric tons of useful load.
A small "Handysize" (around 150 metre) cargo ship can carry around 40,000 metric tons.
A 747 cargo plane (76 metre) has about 100 tons of useful load, and will be there faster.
- ianburrell 3y agoPathfinder 1 airship is supposed to carry 28 tons. That is a single fully loaded 40 ft container. Also, there are a lot of even smaller cargo ships making deliveries to islands. Many of those have cranes for offloading containers to ports without infrastructure.
- usrusr 3y agoSounds just about right sized to get off-shore grade wind turbine blades to remote inland hills. The benefit of larger turbines is even bigger inland than off-shore, but inland is severely limited by transport, because (unlike the tower) those blades can't realistically be built from subassemblies on-site.