Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:45PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Edit: Actually, I can't count. Only a few hundred thousand pounds. That's still probably a bunch of zeppelinworths though.