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title: Mothership concept

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# Mothership concept

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.872.7059&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/241421/reporting

## Mothership form 
* Tugboat that provides movement of ~10 storage units:
    1. Detachable harvester
        * Problably has it's own electronics as well as a motor
        * Hotswap connections in open sea
    2. Simple implementation
        * Small scale
        * Fast set up

* Oil rig or tanker
    1. Tanker
        * Higher capacity for storing units and supplying boats
        * Allows to be more distant from the coastline
    2. Oil rig
        * Lots of unused structure
        * Much more remote
        * Housing for workers
        * Can generate it's own green power

## Reaserch conclusion
Conclusions that were made in previous papers in this research field are still very abstract in their findings. Potential concepts require further information as well as prototyping. 