nuclear ships
Nuclear ships
Josiah Carter
Connor Diaz
japs had em, many other countries too
japs decommissioned theirs because theyre retarded.
heavy cargo ships should use a mix of fission power and kites
Christian King
Don't nuclear ships already exist?
Anthony Williams
we operate one (maybe few)
but commercially no, they don't exist / used
Jaxson Jackson
actually efficient ships are ammonia-powered, but its still research mostly
Lucas Smith
heres the ship
isnt it expensive or something? or is it not used because its too toxic?
James King
yes but its far more compact and more powerful that CNG/LNG
another plus is that production is relatively straight forward (and we have pipilene transport for this all over ussr / former ussr)
Ryan Thomas
wrong image
Blake Bennett
Caleb Ramirez
yes
Americans, French, Russians and Chinese have nuclear subs and carriers
Russians have a bunch of nuclear icebreakers a floating powerplant and even had a nuclear battlecruiser but that got scrapped because it was completely pointless
Russians, Japanese, Germans and Americans built experimental cargo ships but they were too expensive to operate and had too much red tape attached
Gavin Brown
yes methane is gas in room temp which is a problem
works well for cars, maybe planes. but if you need fucktons of fuel for gigantic ship engines maybe not so much.
kinda sketchy, i wouldnt like this to leak neat my neighborhood.
also we had lebanease terrorists who tried to hit ammonia storage here one time so you gotta protect that shit.
Matthew Cox
we have this pipe everywhere here
Jaxson Roberts
probably not *that* toxic
Anthony Evans
we have a word's only operational commercial nuclear ship now
but its not saying much since it was built in ussr
Eli Morgan
maybe media here exaggerate it's toxicity for ratings or something but they always talk about it being bad here.
i do remember this shit
youtube.com
ammonia fuelled cars
still i dont think it's good for large ships, they could try it on aircraft like they did with that russian plane which had a jet engine that could switch from regular fuel to methane.
as for large cargo ships i think a uranium mixture is the best fuel. a fuel load can last for very long and uranium powered engines tend to be very big so big ships are idea for such applications.
Nolan Fisher
I thought it got scrapped or converted to diesel like the others
pretty cool
ammonia is pretty toxic
not exactly nerve gas, but it's corrosive to lungs in higher concentrations
Nolan Thompson
How about instead of nuclear meme we just use sails
>inb4 b-but that would be so slow
That doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is saving fuel. Companies need this to reduce costs and the environment needs this to reduce pollution.
Hudson Edwards
seems to me that nuclear propulsion would make perfect sense for huge container ships an tankers, maybe cruise ships too
Connor Evans
Cruise ships had too much trouble entering seaports, most bases just banned them and the ones that did let them in required months of negotiations.
Lucas Long
there is currently a nuclear research & development revolution that is very quietly flying under the radar in the US.
for the first time since like the 1970s, there is renewed serious interest in small, portable and very safe nuclear reactors. the Department of Defense, NASA, universities and the private sector all have projects to implement this technology in various ways.
my favorite company that is getting into it is USNC usnc.com
they plan on flying a nuclear reactor into orbit within a couple of years.