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Airships don’t make sense for commercial travel. But they make a lot of sense for transporting cargo, specifically to regions that are difficult to serve by roa
by crca 7y ago
Airships don’t make sense for commercial travel. But they make a lot of sense for transporting cargo, specifically to regions that are difficult to serve by road or rail. LM has had a scalable, deployable system for years but no one has pulled the trigger on actually buying it yet.
- tropo 7y agoAn ordinary suburban location is difficult to serve by road if you'd like to ship a large house.
- scythe 7y agoI hadn't even considered that. You could blimp all sorts of things that won't fit on the road. Houses, windmill blades, HVAC units, pods for modular buildings, extremely large pianos, ...
- ryacko 7y agoNarrow gauge is a good solution for mountainous or rural areas, but infrastructure intensive solutions require government investments.