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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by freddie_mercury »

jtsuken wrote: post #138
lastofthemojito wrote: post #63

I was initially skeptical, but seeing Mokulele Airlines (an airline serving Hawaii) flash by on the carousel made me consider that this might have at least some real-world uses. It's insane to me that the vast majority of inter-island travel in Hawaii (an archipelago where generally each island is visible from the next) is via jet aircraft. You have to spend hours (especially if you're checking bags) getting to the a…

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other air…

> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail.

I live outside the US and this is laughably wrong.

How can you collapse the entire world down to "outside the US".

Israeli airports are exactly the same as Zimbabwean airports in your worldview?

I live in SE Asia and no country around here has air travel "like rail". I cannot get through xray and security in minutes. I cannot just show a ticket on my phone.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by int_19h »

wthalheimer wrote: post #69
darwinwhy wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That means this thing won't be going to Hawaii any time soon. They claim Mokulele as one of their customers so presumably they can travel between some of the islands.

Oh ya we have open water covered. Coastal travel = coastal destinations. The trips themselves can be coastally proximal or over open water.

You might want to clarify that on the website because "coastal waters only" is also the impression I've got from the wording.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by logdap »

jtsuken wrote: post #138
lastofthemojito wrote: post #63

I was initially skeptical, but seeing Mokulele Airlines (an airline serving Hawaii) flash by on the carousel made me consider that this might have at least some real-world uses. It's insane to me that the vast majority of inter-island travel in Hawaii (an archipelago where generally each island is visible from the next) is via jet aircraft. You have to spend hours (especially if you're checking bags) getting to the a…

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other air…

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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by cyberax »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #126
cyberax wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Despite studies showing that bike paths increase property values Except that these studies are rather suspect and/or very narrow. The situation for actual residential neighborhoods is at most unclear.

Crime does seem to center around heavily developed public transit corridors, but it is difficult to tell if economic or transit accessibility are the primary drivers of increased crime (probably a bit of both).

I'm not saying _anything_ about crime. I'm disputing the assertion that bike lanes inevitably increase property value.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by aidenn0 »

wthalheimer wrote: post #91
tr33house wrote: post #77

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how much is one of these going for?

This is one of those "let me connect you with our sales team" questions ;) Operating cost is about half that of an aircraft though. 100% battery electric propulsion system!

How does operating cost compare to a high-speed cat ferry?

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by noduerme »

cyberax wrote: post #164
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crime does seem to center around heavily developed public transit corridors, but it is difficult to tell if economic or transit accessibility are the primary drivers of increased crime (probably a bit of both).

I'm not saying _anything_ about crime. I'm disputing the assertion that bike lanes inevitably increase property value.

One case where they don't would be commercial roads with small shops that rely on street parking. But the comment you're responding to was talking about residential, and I haven't seen enough dispositive data on that one way or another. Like anything, it's probably a mixed bag.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

jimbob45 wrote: post #157
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #134

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This is a perennial favorite of transportation NIMBYs. Where I live extending the light rail the last little bit over the river to Washington state is a no brainer, but it's been paralyzed by decades of opposition from suburbanites in Vancouver Wa. My friend's dad is/was one of the key activists. He'd stand in planning meetings and no joke scream about how "criminals" were gonna ride the train up, break into someone'…

If he can show any occurrence of that ever happening, then you come off as dishonest and disinterested in the needs of the community. Is it really so difficult to cater to his needs as well? There’s surely a better compromise than “Everyone who disagrees with me is a racist”.

This man is factually a racist. I am not simply labeling him that because we disagree as you insinuate, having no actual information on the situation.

And no, I see zero reason to tolerate what is clearly bad faith behavior.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by diggernet »

wthalheimer wrote: post #125
nradov wrote: post #108

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Sure, that makes sense. The large swells in that region tend to be long period. Contouring the swells up and down is going to make some passengers motion sick, but probably not as bad as a regular ferry in the same conditions.

Ah I see the confusion - that overflight wave tolerance is defined by an emergency landing condition. In the extremely low probability chance that the seaglider needs to perform an emergency landing, the passengers need to be safe. That defines the 8-13ft window. In no cases are we contouring waves in flight. We fly straight and level. Typical flight altitudes are 10-30ft above the wave peaks. The waves are well belo…

Having recently spent time watching many whales breaching well into your airspace, I wonder if you have any thoughts on avoiding right-of-way disputes with charismatic megafauna?
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