Transport Retrofit
July 18, 2010
Airlines have tried to compensate the increase in passenger size and weight by adding extra taxes and designing larger and more fuel efficient airplanes but surely there are limits to how big our vehicles can become. Shrinking on the other hand would open up a world of opportunities for retrofitters. Redesigning and repurposing our systems and vehicles of transport could turn out to be one of the most rewarding aspects of becoming small. A 50 centimeter person weighs about 2 kilograms.
How many half meter people fit in a 747?
[…] all need to be downsized to fit our down-sized needs. And some things can stay the way they are. 8000 passengers would fit into a regular sized Boeing 747, traffic jams would be a thing of the past, and railway track capacity will double, re-fitting them […]