Nuclear Ships

Nimitiz has 120 more megawatts of propulsion power than a CSCL Globe class container ship.

can do at least 10 more knots too.

An empty large cargo ship is at a minimum 2x the deadweight of an aircraft carrier and 15x the weight of fully loaded aircraft carriers and submarines respectivly.

>t. brainlet.
>whats a torque?
Maybe cargo ships use streamlines to be more efficient?
Maybe Deisel power is cheaper and more efficient on fuel?

>can do at least 10 more knots too
Holy shit an aircraft carrier can go faster than a cargo ship lierally 2-4x larger!!! Putting that engineering degree to good use.

There is no chance whatsoever that nuclear container ships are going to become a serious thing. Nuclear reactors and nuclear engineers just cost far too much money for that.

>1 volcano eruption releases more CO2 than all of europe's emissions over the last 40 years combined.
>CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSED BY HUMANS!!!!
really activates the action potentials

Cargo ships use little energy relative to the amount of material they move.

At a relatively fast cruising speed, big ship that carries ten thousand TEUs (equivalents of twenty-foot containers) will burn about a quarter-ton of fuel per km travelled. That's about 250 kg of low-grade oil per truckload of stuff brought all the way from China to the continental USA in under 2 weeks.

Wind certainly can cut it, especially with robotic sailing ships. It's a little slower, but then there's no cost of fuel.

For that matter, batteries can do it. What ships are really good at is hauling a lot of weight. A few tons of batteries per TEU is still a small percentage of the load.

The entire global shipping fleet burns less fuel than Japan alone, and is responsible for only about 3% of carbon emissions.

So yeah: wind, solar/battery, or bio, take your pick, any of it would work for ship and trains, which are inherently energy efficient ways to move cargo. Cars, aircraft, HVAC, and grid power are the big challenges.

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>implying any ships other than heavily armed ships designed for battles go anywhere near there

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