From: "Mark Radabaugh" <m...@amplex.net>
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 7:12:35 PM
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:
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> 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
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