Posted on 10/28/2015 1:40:54 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
With a capacity to carry 19,000 TEUs, the recently named MV CSCL Globe is the world’s largest containership by cargo capacity. But that’s not all it’s known for. The newbuild for China Shipping Container Lines is also noteworthy for being powered by what is physically the largest engine ever constructed.
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All that effort and a freaking Honda civic would wax it in a 1/4 mile.
Yeah, but I’d like to see that Civic pull a loaded train and not break a sweat ;)
How much does an oil change cost?
Hah, didn’t think of that. Probably measured in barrels.
I couldn’t decide between barrels and drums....
If it sails into a typhoon the hull stresses will be something else. I wonder how good the Chinese engineering is
Big polluters: one massive container ship equals 50 million cars
Paul Evans
April 23, 2009
http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
There are 90,000 cargo ships in the world.
There are 760 million cars in the world.
15 of the largest ships emit as much Sulphur Oxides as the 760 million cars of the world.
The largest ships have two cycle engines 5 stories tall and use 16 tons of dirty fuel per hour as they travel just 30 mph across the globe.
These ship engines produce 114,800 horse power or 90 MW.
A city of 100,000 homes uses 100 MW
Ships contribute half of the pollution in Los Angeles
There are 150 nuclear ships in the world. A Nimitz class supercarrier produces 240,000 hp, 208 MW, or enough power for 208,000 homes and can go 20 years without refueling.
A wind farm the size of Texas, California and New Mexico is required to power the U.S.
In 1967 Los Angeles we had 855,000 employees in manufacturing.
In 2014 we had 349,532 manufacturing employees.
No idea - but I have a gut response to that...
Would much rather see them (and all ships) use multiple engines instead of one huge monster motor...
Surprising the Chinese did not go to nuclear to power this ship.
Annual fuel costs alone would make for a very quick payback.
And if a uranium-fueled nuclear generation plant is too large and complex for cargo ship use, then build and install a thorium-fueled Molten-Salt generation plant. They can be both much smaller and more flexible than the light-water plant.
And the technology is currently available.
A fleet of such cargo ships would DOMINATE the world shipping lanes, because per-unit shipping costs would be sharply lower, and speed of transport could be conceivably somewhat quicker, as turnaround at the port is limited only by loading and unloading capabilities - no refueling time for YEARS.
Check out this supersized high res image: 3,836 × 2,448 pixels
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/MV_CSCL_Mercury_R01.jpg
And would be targets of terrorists for decades who wanted to get ahold of nuclear material for dirty bombs. Or just make the cargo ship a dirty bomb and blow the reactor while unloading in Long Beach, CA.
Too bad they have nothing to ship these days.
Their shipping index is horrible.
Probably won’t fit in place of my VW TDI.
It’s amazing how disastrous these ships have been from a financial perspective. Building ships like this adds so much capacity to the shipping industry that the shipping rates are depressed ... which means the companies that operate these ships have a hard time recovering the cost of building them.
Is this ready for Commercially ready for Prime time?
And is anything with molten sodium in a harsh corrosive marine water environment, a good idea?
(I know it would supposedly be a closed loop system)
RE: “thorium-fueled Molten-Salt generation plant.”
Container ship diesel drive systems are linked to the propellers thru a transmission system. Surprising that they have not yet evolved to a diesel electric system similar to locomotives where the diesel engine is used to generate electric power.
Megaships are worsening overcapacity in the container market
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