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Airship Transporting Grain - Postcard from a Solarpunk Future (imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net to c/art@slrpnk.net

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A quick one based on u/Sam-Nales's comment about combining airship mooring masts with screw conveyors/screw elevators similar to those used by grain silos on my last post over on reddit. I talked it over with the folks on the farming community: https://slrpnk.net/post/3643695 and feel like there's a definite place for grain and silos in a solarpunk world. This was a quick one, the zoomed out scenes often are.

I'm not sure a mooring mast is entirely necessary here, with the big, recently-reaped fields to land on, but perhaps this farm is using a system compatible to other farms nearby who use more agroforestry, and wouldn't necessarily like having to clear a patch of empty land just for landing airships

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[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Looks like this one's not as practical as I would like - airships aren't a great fit for this kind of shipping. Too bad. I'm very pleased with both the mooring mast design and the chance to push some views of solarpunk that aren't verdant summertime scenes. I try to research the postcards pretty well but read up on the wrong stuff this time - looked in to silos and grain and how they'd fit a solarpunk society, on screw elevators and their limitations, but didn't think to look at the cargo capacity for airships beyond the fact that some can haul some pretty big stuff

[–] hotair@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is conceivable that unlike boats, autonomous airships may not need to be super big - they scale linearly. So a continuous swarm of small, lighter than air evacuated diamond foam devices could come, pick up stuff, and depart for local targets or far away targets via the jet stream. That also removes the need for the tower - they could pick stuff up right from the harvester.

[–] hotair@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, combined with the other idea to move the harvester; grain pirates! The small airship swoops down at night and picks up a some strip worth of grain, and is gone in the morning.

[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Tractor Jack takes to the skies! I love it.

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