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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by thfuran on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:21PM (#38729149)
A train car carries about a kiloton of cargo. How many zeppelins would that take?

Edit: Actually, I can't count. Only a few hundred thousand pounds. That's still probably a bunch of zeppelinworths though.

Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:45PM (#38729365)
Hinderburg-like at 100 ton itself can carry about 120 ton payload, ie. payload of 2 train cars.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by mynameisnoone on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:57PM (#38729491)
And where does one dock this massive beast in a city with controlled airspace?
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:23PM (#38729722)
In a distribution center outside of the city the cargo is transferred onto local electric Amazon/UPS/etc. delivery trucks/vans.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by dragonwriter on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:03PM (#38730478)
So, the equivalent of a 100 car freight train would be a 50 Hindenburg zeppelin fleet?
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by hughesjj on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:55PM (#38730772)
It's actually fairly easy logistically imo

Design the Zeppelin for literal tons of ballast, trade out sandbags/dirtbags for product or waste on docking, andaybe add an aerodynamic shield if you don't care about speed as much

We already sacrifice significant speed for boats, but I grant they're several orders of magnitude better at balancing buoyancy with cargo given they flot in the water rather than atmosphere