Every once in awhile you lose things, hard to keep track. Good thing is once you fished it out of the Mariannas Trench you just dust it off, knock the fish out and fire it back up? Might need a paint job. Oh, and potential implosion at depth. But if you could get it back, just change the oil and run it.
> On Oct 7, 2024, at 5:30 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > > 3 container ships per year were lost between 2013 and 2022. Not sure we > really want that many nuclear reactors disappearing into the ocean. > > Mark > >> On Oct 7, 2024, at 8:16 PM, Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: >> >> Nuclear probably beats diesel for energy density, but I presume that is not >> an option. >> >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: "Mark Radabaugh" <m...@amplex.net> >> Sent: 10/7/2024 7:13:41 PM >> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] solar container ships >> >> Back of the envelope calculations…. >> >> Panamax (largest container ship through the Panama Canal) burns 63,000 >> gal/day. >> >> 63000 gal of diesel is 2400MWH of energy. It takes roughly 10 acres to >> generate 1MW of power so 24,000 acres * 3 (to account for night). Call >> it 40 square miles…. I don’t think that’s going to work. >> >> Batteries…. The Panamax ships hold ~3M gallons of fuel or 114298 MWH of >> energy. A typical nuclear power plant puts out 900MWH so it’s going to take >> the full output for 5 days to recharge that battery. But the typical >> turnaround is 1-2 days to we need 5 reactors to recharge the ship by the >> time it’s ready to sail. >> >> Hard to beat dead dinosaurs for energy density. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >>> On Oct 7, 2024, at 5:22 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> i dont know how much batteries it would take to run one of these beasts, >>> but what is the fuel to batter weight ratio? like 100 tons to cross the >>> atlantic in fuel would require how many tons of battery with 30% sun and >>> how many tons of solar panels to charge them >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
