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Boatloads of megawatts
Just like it's hard to beat the bandwidth of a station wagon full of CD-Rs; maybe moving electicity by ship can have a good ROI in certain situations:
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Last winter, when Ukraine's power infrastructure was bombed by RU, Turkey provided floating power plants, something like this:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1685718727 |
A boatload of batteries sounds like a bad idea to me.
A floating power station should burn hydrocarbons and be quickly refuelable. Scratch that. A floating power station should decay uranium and only need refueling every decade. |
IIRC Jack Rikard said that a docked aircraft carrier's shore power cable (dock to ship) carried power equivalent to a charging Tesla.
240MWh would [likely] need a chilled superconducting connector. Maybe obsolete nuclear submarines could have their torpedo tubes turned into electrical sockets? |
The problem with batteries is they're heavy. A 2019+ leaf battery has a volume something to the tune of 60 gallons or more but weights over 900lb and only holds the energy you would get out of maybe 5 gallons of diesel if burned for electricity in a piston engine. Then if it's burned in a combined cycle gas turbine steam engine you get double the power out of that much fuel.
That 900lb battery will only let you go 200 miles or so, a diesel fuel tank would weigh half as much and power the car for more like 3,000 miles. |
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