{"id":200250,"date":"2021-05-29T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/29\/not-this-sh-again-8\/"},"modified":"2021-05-29T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T03:16:00","slug":"not-this-sh-again-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/29\/not-this-sh-again-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Not this Sh%$ Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDOI0cq6GZM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"321\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Yeah, like this<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It seems that every few years, someone tries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/airships-for-city-hops-could-cut-flyings-co2-emissions-by-90\">pitch airships as a solution to some transportation conundrum<\/a>, this time, it for making short trips across a body of water.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are compelling, about 90% less carbon per passenger than an aircraft, but the competitor would be a high speed ferry, which would have additional capabilities, like carrying cars and cargo.<\/p>\n<p>The example that they give is Barcelona to Palma de Mallorca route, which they claim would take 100 passengers, &#8220;Four and a half hours,&#8221; to reach their destination<\/p>\n<p>A ferry trip, according to google maps, is 212 km (132 miles), so a high speed (30 kt \u2014 55.6 km\/h \u2014 34.5 mph, and some ferries reach 50 kt) ferry could make the transit in the same amount of time, and not require any new shore facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-argument is &#8220;But Airships!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, like this It seems that every few years, someone tries to pitch airships as a solution to some transportation conundrum, this time, it for making short trips across a body of water. The numbers are compelling, about 90% less carbon per passenger than an aircraft, but the competitor would be a high speed ferry, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[982,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}