Re: [AFMUG] solar container ships

[Chuck]

Floating array you tow. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 8, 2024, at 4:59 AM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: Of course the reactor will have more power, the question was can you use solar or battery. There is not enough surface area for solar, and you can’t recharge batteries in the 12-24hour port turnaround time. Mark Radabaugh Amplex 22690 Pemberville Rd Luckey, OH 43443 419-261-5996 On Oct 8, 2024, at 5:46 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:  There's bad math and bad comparisons in there. The reactors in the latest aircraft carriers have 385 MW of power each and run for years and years, dwarfing the oil MWH a container ship hauls around in it. The nuclear reactor would pass it in 11 days. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP 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: > > 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

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