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[Aeronaut]

Outstanding work, Zap! :coolsmile:

My last gig was unloading shipping containers, so I know precisely how short and heavily framed they are, lol. They also come in 53 foot lengths, btw. For my purposes, a 53 foot FF generator trailer beats a shipping container for domestic markets for many reasons:

1. The components will ship to a job site on a flatbed to make them easily accessible to the end user’s crane(s) for fixed installations.
2. Much less (and lighter gauge) steel is used in the package- the weight can go towards water for the cooling system in remote/ emergency response applications.
3. Traveling roadshow demonstrations. Creative types can have a lot of fun imagining how to deploy x number of these trucks to power their city or village for free for a day. Google did a similar type of promotion recently to pick the city where they’d install a wi-fi network.
4. The system designer isn’t limited by the tube steel frame required for stacking, so some or all of the sides can either fold out or extend like on an RV when the system’s running. Now your side clearances are much wider and access to plumbing and wiring skyrockets.

The shipping container is made to order for international markets, if they emerge. Personally, the only international markets I see for any of the early manufacturers are countries that need lots of help with clean water and drainage even before electricity. Pro-bono work, which is designed into my plan.