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by schroeding 1754 days ago
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

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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...)