Comment on China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping?

CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• wantd2B1ofthestrokes@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Another possible innovation would be people onboard to row

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Advertise it as a new fitness program that includes seeing the world for free.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just drain the seas and drive them around on big tank tracks

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    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but where to put all that water? On the moon?

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      • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If we can make the world hot enough it’ll just become clouds

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just flush it down a big toilet

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nuclear powered trains with railroads across the ocean.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A tethered ring would be cheaper, and also possible

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    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey I’ve seen that movie, it was fictional. Let’s not make it real.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With the labor shortage these days, we’ll definitely have people coming forward!

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have them down below on exercise bikes like little hamsters.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is also being tried. The first such ship set sail recently.

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  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve only heard of big kites being used to help reduce fuel consumption on cargo ships. If you have a link to an example of a cargo ship that uses the wind as its primary power source, please share it.

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    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      trendydigests.com/…/wind-powered-cargo-ship-sets-…

      Keep in mind that “primary” power source isn’t going to happen. You’re not moving modern cargo loads on wind power alone. But it can provide supplementary power, reducing fuel usage.

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      • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is there a hard theoretical limit to the capacity of a primarily wind powered ship?

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The first sailing transport ship set sail recently…? Can we define “recent” lol

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, um. The first modern …

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This comment is just classic Lemmy. Do you think customers would accept their cargo just turning up whenever, depending on what the wind is doing? Why do you think we went away from sail in the first place?

  Not to mention the air draft of such a vessel, or the fact that sails interfere with loading cargo.

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• pc486@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are sailed powered logistics ships! Here’s a grain ship that just launched. There are also companies that produce inflatable or deployable sails to reduce fuel consumption in favorable winds.

  Ultimately there will be a need for chemical energy or similarly dense energy to move a ship. The wind doesn’t always blow, and when it does it won’t always be in the direction you want. Nuclear is certainly an interesting option.

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• Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They can just add sails to augment the current engines. I read somewhere years ago that it was tested and found to reduce fuel consumption by a lot.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In that case, why isn’t it more common?

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    • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.google.com/amp/s/…/technology-66543643.amp

      I guess they’ve been working on it.

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