i am not sure what has been going on the last two weeks but i have not spent much time building in-world. i guess life got in the way – that and setting up the new grid. even though i am doing very little as far as the grid goes, just some time here and there dealing with smaller issues. you know how it goes – lots of plans and good intentions . . .

it was nice to plug away on two things today – redoing the wind turbine nacelles (no joke – the housing behind the blades is called a nacelle just like in Star Trek) and messing with the cargo zeppelin

both are environmental science things with the wind turbines being a reality and the cargo airship being something that might be here in 10 years! one airship company is starting the planning stage for this. the thought is that for some things it is okay to have slower transport – like delivering containers of produce in Europe. if an airship could cruise at 50 miles per hour (maybe more – i think they were shooting for 78) it could be effective

the solar powered aspect is also fairly realistic. i suppose you need decent weather though =)

the cargo zep was outfitted with 6 electric turbine-like engines today (not same as wind turbines, this could get confusing) plus two bow thrusters like a ship would have. i’ll actually sit down and calculate if my small engines could work by looking at total load (14 containers at 7 tonnes each = a lot of force and buoyancy needed! it better be super sunny out!) =p

hmmm, sounds like a heinous math/physics/my-head-hurts exercise for students to me! =D

they look kind of small once mounted ="

wind turbine nacelle