How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
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How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
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Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#2Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from/to specific locations far from the shore:
http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18...
However, after hearing about this comeback for at least a decade, I'm a bit skeptic it will ever come true.
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#3Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from/to specific locations far from the shore: http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18... However, after hearing about this comeback for at least a decade, I'm a bit skeptic it will ever come true.
One of these efforts graced the Berlin, Germany area with a huge hangar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
Luckily, they found a new use for the structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#4Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from/to specific locations far from the shore: http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18... However, after hearing about this comeback for at least a decade, I'm a bit skeptic it will ever come true.
The Zeppelin this article talks about could still only potentially lift 66 tonnes, less than a third of the weight of this spectrometer. But yeah, a zeppelin with sufficient lift would be a very good solution to this problem.
edit yes, "over the long term" they say they could build an airship with a 500 tons lift capability, but that seems far away.
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Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#6Is it possible to have multiple helicopters work together to lift one object? If so, 10 of these could have done it :)
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#7Is it possible to have multiple helicopters work together to lift one object? If so, 10 of these could have done it :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26
Hard to see how ten helicopters could maintain enough horizontal separation to work safely while carrying the load.
An airship might be a better alternative.
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#8I really have a hard time believing there was no lower cost solution for a 400 km trip by land as opposed to a 9000 km trip by land, sea, and land.
What about an off road heavy transport trailer for the sections of road they can' t fit through. Or a quick build bridge structure similar to what is used by the military? Or some sort of land version of a lock (water transport)?
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#9Similar problem in the United States, moving a massive electromagnet from Brookhaven to Fermilab: http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/gallery.shtml
Re: How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
#10I really have a hard time believing there was no lower cost solution for a 400 km trip by land as opposed to a 9000 km trip by land, sea, and land. What about an off road heavy transport trailer for the sections of road they can' t fit through. Or a quick build bridge structure similar to what is used by the military? Or some sort of land version of a lock (water transport)?
Most of that distance is on fairly calm waters, and they got it as close as 7km of the destination, without having to create ad hoc one-time solutions and live test them with the product to deliver. Any difference in cost is probably tiny compared with the value of that instrument.