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Winged cargo ship saves three tonnes of fuel per day on first voyage (newatlas.com)

submitted 8 months ago by mac@programming.dev to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Batteries are part of what I said, which you seem to be ignoring. A ship that huge could hold some huge-ass batteries to power the bigass motors. Sodium-ion batteries would be the ideal solution with presently available technology.

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Nowhere near the power density needed to get the job done