Comment by 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.
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.
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.
And a maglev train?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
You also aren’t doing so while carrying 2100 passengers sms 225 cars, I imagine.
Plus they are going to get very waterlogged cycling that nautical mile.
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