• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This right here. You’d need a frankly ridiculous amount of solid stainless steel to build pylons for seaway protection, and that’s for low speed impacts.

    Kinetic energy increases with the square of velocity!

    I’m not a sailor it anything, but I suppose requiring tugboats for all harbor travel of shops over a gross weight might be a good thing. Makes more jobs, at least.