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Yet other forms of transportation already exist and are well developed. Out of the years of experience in development we know that speed and efficiency is key. We need to move goods as cheap and fast as possible.
Airships were only abandoned because in the 1930ties fuel was extremely cheap and military applications for airplanes reigned supreme. Airships are actually vastly more efficient than airplanes and fast enough to beat most other modes of transportation.
Planes are less efficient, but extremely fast. Weight to speed ratio, airships are a joke compared to ships. Transportation with airship is way more expensive then a container ship. It may be better for the environment, but companies care about profits, and it's the companies using the service. Either it needs to travel fast for more money with planes, or slow in bulk for cheap. Slow and expensive makes no sense. It makes sense to you and me, caring about the enviroment. But I'm not importing and exporting goods on a massive scale.
buddy what are you not getting about "fuel makes the planet hot we should seek alternatives"
also we superduper do not need to move goods as cheap and as fast as possible, that's some capitalist dogmatic brainwashing
It's companies which are the ones moving the goods. I agree we all should change, I'm against capitalism, but good luck convincing companies to cut deeply into their profits.