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Comment by amelius

9 hours ago

For comparison, a wide body airliner needs ~0.15MWh to travel 1 nautical mile.

A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles".

  • It also does so in a medium where the main drag force is induced by air rather than water, which is probably a comparably significant factor

    • It also needs to beat up that air enough to make the resultant forces overcome gravity acting on the airliner whereas the ship just gets to float there.

      Apples to orages.

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