[HN Gopher] First crewless, zero emissions cargo ship will set s...
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       First crewless, zero emissions cargo ship will set sail in Norway
        
       Author : lnguyen
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-08-25 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (edition.cnn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (edition.cnn.com)
        
       | tsjq wrote:
       | Hasn't Tesla done this already?
        
       | schroeding wrote:
       | Wow, so cool! Basically a giant 80 meter long RC ship with an
       | autopilot! :-)
       | 
       | It also has a way smaller battery capacity than I would have
       | expected to be necessary for a (small) cargo ship, even for the
       | short range of 64 nautical miles (~120km). Ships are pretty
       | efficient, apparently. :-D
        
         | blacksmith_tb wrote:
         | In the images is looks like the main deck is 4 x 11 containers,
         | I guess any kind of 'canopy' of solar panels above them would
         | need to be easy to remove when it came time to load or unload,
         | but that's a pretty large amount of area (depending on the
         | weather it was sailing in - though I suppose like being
         | becalmed, if your robot ship needed sunshine to sail, it'd just
         | have to wait until the clouds parted...)
        
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