Comment by eesmith 13 hours ago A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles". 7 comments eesmith Reply verandaguy 12 hours ago 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 potato3732842 11 hours ago 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. eesmith 10 hours ago Yup.Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.That's a couple of apples. 4 replies →
verandaguy 12 hours ago 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 potato3732842 11 hours ago 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. eesmith 10 hours ago Yup.Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.That's a couple of apples. 4 replies →
potato3732842 11 hours ago 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. eesmith 10 hours ago Yup.Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.That's a couple of apples. 4 replies →
eesmith 10 hours ago Yup.Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.That's a couple of apples. 4 replies →
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.
Yup.
Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.
That's a couple of apples.
4 replies →