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by JeremyPOsborne
2049 days ago
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Jeremy here from that Boundary Layer Technologies. That company building hydrofoil cargo ships. Hydrofoils are not new and have been working for half a century in harsh weather conditions. Please look up the Pegasus class ships from the US navy. Technology has changed in the last 50 years which means we can greatly improve efficiency and practicality of foiling ships especially in the world of airfreight. Foiling vessels can be built to handle any weather condition of a buoyancy based ship. And because we're at sea for no more than 6 days we have a much greater weather prediction to avoid storm swells compared to a tradition ship who might be at see for more than 30 days and cannot go around the storm. For 99% of the time, the ocean is pretty flat so we can still have 99% on time delivery. LOL, I appreciate your words about vagueness. We have not been specific about how we will achieve our goals, but watch out of the coming months for a lot more details. I do love a good hater, it's a promising sign. |
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I'm not sure regurgitating well known limitations of Hydrofoils (vis-a-vis strong winds), and asking questions about the only presentation a startup asking for money has felt the need to release qualifies as hating.
It didn't go unnoticed that you didn't actually answer any of the questions, and instead doubled down on vagueness. Also pulling out the Pegasus-class really shows how little research has been done (a petrol boat class of ships specifically not designed for deep ocean that was retired early due to the limitations naturally inherent in Hydrofoils!).