From the info that I found about that Achates engine, it would eventually be good enought not just to drive a genset, since its output is very close to some engines in the 9-litre range used by European truck makers such as Scania.
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The US Navy is testing technology to convert CO2 from sea water, catalytically combined with hydrogen from an electrolysis cell and forming synthetic JP8 equivalent so that the nuclear carrier produces fuels for it's air wings.
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Interesting to say the least.
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Nuclear power could be "stored" as hydrocarbons and distributed as it is now.
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I don't understand how nuclear power could be "stored" as hydrocarbons, but anyway IIRC the current generation of nuclear submarines still rely on an opposed-piston Diesel from Fairbanks Morse as their backup power unit.