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Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks (newatlas.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly how it'll do this is yet to be nailed down, but individual pallets will carry up to a ton of small cargo items, and they'll move without human interference from one end to the other.

Someone's been playing Factorio.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, just gotta use some automatic inserters and splitters.

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