The seastead will have 3 columns that are 4 foot wide and go 13 feet into the water at
a 45 degree angle. There will also be 2 cables from the bottom of the columns to the adjacent corners.
The seastead is about 30,000 lbs I think but this is NOT a normal boat hull shape,
it is more like a tiny oil platform as far as drag.
Normal operation will be with 2 submersible mixers with 2.5 meter propellers
using differential thrust but here I want you to look at different backup ways of moving the seastead
We will have lots of solar but not unlimited.
Lets assume we have 2 of these submersible mixers:
https://www.shinmaywa.co.jp/english/products/pump/introduction/sm_sme/sm-vrtn.html
https://www.mrm-shinmaywa.com/filesdirectserver/itp1/z_itp_12042022f9ii/originalz-z721968334010.pdf
2.5 meters
3200 newtons - (720 lbs)
Is stainless and ok for seawater
2–3.2 kW
As the vessel moves the thrust generated and power used drop off like in this table for each thruster:
MPH Thrust (N) kW
0 3200 3.2
0.5 2380 2.8
1 1560 2.4
1.5 740 2.0
Please try to estimate how fast the seastead could go with 2 thrusters and
each thruster using power of:
1.2 kw
2.2 kw
3.2 kw