The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
On Nov 7, 5:38*pm, William Mook wrote:
There are about 10,000 large shipping vessels that carry a total of
1.1 billion dead weight tons. *This is about 110,000 tons each. *At
$200 million each this is a total infrastructure cost of $22
trillion. * These deliver 15 billion tons of cargo per year taking 45
days to cycle.
We are contemplating 16 million airships carrying 40 tons each - 0.64
billion dead weight tons - having a cycle time of 2.25 days delivering
delivering 140 billion tons of cargo per year - with far greater
flexibility than is possible with sea going ships. *If the same $22
trillion is allocated to these 16 million airships, we have a target
cost of $1.375 million per ship - in these quantities.
"We"
Can you be a little more specific as to who or whomever this "We"
represents?
Right for now it seems "We" = William Mook
~ BG
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