Maybe disassemble part of the ship to disgorge its contents closer to equipment?
Is that ship still stuck?
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Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had the exact same idea but the canal bank is very shallow.. so you would have to build around the whole ship (as you said). This also seems like a major undertaking. I am excited to see how they will solve the problem though!
You might end up getting it stuck higher . Then what?
Build a taller barrier!
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had the exact same idea but the canal bank is very shallow.. so you would have to build around the whole ship (as you said). This also seems like a major undertaking. I am excited to see how they will solve the problem though!
You might end up getting it stuck higher . Then what?
If it keeps getting stuck higher and higher at some point it will be out of the canal thus solving the problem, no?
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unloading is feasible, it would just take a couple of weeks. They just need a floating crane on each side and some barges to take the containers away.
Maybe. That's a lot of barges. Remember that you then have to go and unload the barges, and there are 20,000 containers.
20,000 TEU, not containers.
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unloading is feasible, it would just take a couple of weeks. They just need a floating crane on each side and some barges to take the containers away.
Maybe. That's a lot of barges. Remember that you then have to go and unload the barges, and there are 20,000 containers.
> That's a lot of barges.
Maybe bring another Evergreen ship there and move containers onto it...?
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#366Nuke the thing. Crater fills with water. Continue.
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Might need a small nuclear power plant or two to make it feasible. Amazingly, that's a severe underestimation. The force on a wire carrying current in a magnetic field is given by F = B*I*l, and to move it upwards that force needs to be at least equal to gravity, so equate to F = m*g. - Let's be generous and assume B = 100 uT = 100 * 10^-6 T. - Likewise, assume the ship is a rectangular box with sides of 400 m x 10…
The most important thing here is the magicness of the wire. The ship is 60m wide and 30m tall, that makes a circumference of 180m. 0.05m radius, 100000 windings, made of copper with a density of approx. 8900kg/m^3 gives a total mass of approx. 1.3*10^6 tons for the cable alone.
Yeah, the wire would be heavier than the ship.
That is a relatively fundamental result. With current materials, it's pretty much impossible to levitate anything against Earth's magnetic field. You can't put enough current through a wire to create a force bigger than its own gravity without using unreasonable amounts of power. Even if you put in that power, you'd melt the wire.
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has a 20,000 container capacity, so if it's full and you could unload them at a rate of 1 per minute (assuming multiple choppers) it would take 2 weeks with no stopping, but I assume the frequency would be much lower than that so you're talking possibly months to unload even a fraction of them.
Yeah, from the middle out.
Someone grab a whiteboard...
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#369The ship is named “Ever Given”, but the huge text on the side says “EVERGREEN”, which is confusingly similar. Does anyone know why?
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