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

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As a farmer, I think the mooring mast with a loading elevator is quite reasonable. If you have enough grain to transport like this, you’d have open fields, but it would be put in bins at harvest and loaded out as contracts come due.

    You wouldn’t auger that far, an elevator is more reasonable. And a typical shipment via ground is 42 tons on a Super-B double trailer unit.

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.netOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s really good to know, thank you! Swapping the elevator in wouldn’t be too much work and it makes sense, I was just estimating height but had to use two different screw conveyors and I wasn’t sure if that made sense. Glad to know the cargo capacity actually matched up.