re: sf housing crisis, could we charter massive cruise ships to permanently circle the area, picking up / dropping off in the city 5 or 10 times a day? maybe 10 ships, 50,000 rooms?
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Replying to @micsolana
It is crazy how many times I've heard versions of this idea. You could keep them floating quite a ways out semi-permanently if you had sufficient demand to keep a few taxi-boats in business
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that didn’t even occur to me - that’s brilliant. dramatically reduces energy costs and pretty much kills the environmental argument against.
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So why isn’t this a thing already? Nvm I understand now: A cruise ship costs around $.5-1 billion jfc
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some quick back of envelope calculation says it would take ~10 years to recoup investment assuming no further costs
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$2k/room/month * 4000 rooms (optimistically) = ~$100m yearly rev
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Believe it or not, $500M-$1B for 4,000 units ($125-250k/unit) is a total steal by SF construction cost standards. Any developer would have their mouths watering at that price point in 2019pic.twitter.com/KMjIjxIawM
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Replying to @webdevMason @micsolana
Then this sounds madly profitable Let’s raise $10b and get cracking
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