• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    It wouldn’t decrease prices quite as much as you’d think, since so much of the cost of a banana is transportation, which they don’t do with the ones they throw out. They should still do it, obviously, and then transport them on trains to reduce transportation cost as well.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      iirc transport on ship is actually cheaper than trains i think due to not needing rails and also ships being fucking huge which means low surface area to volume ratio, so you need less steel to build them.

      also how do you build a train line from south america to europe?