| ▲ | eesmith 3 hours ago |
| A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles". |
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| ▲ | verandaguy 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | potato3732842 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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