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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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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Not even close to enough surface area to power them with solar. Even if the entire ship held up a solar array that completely shadowed the ship would it be enough.

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