[Norm Lenhart]

All that effort and a freaking Honda civic would wax it in a 1/4 mile.

[Paladin2]

How much does an oil change cost?

[Jimmy Valentine]

If it sails into a typhoon the hull stresses will be something else. I wonder how good the Chinese engineering is

[Haddit]

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.

[ETL]

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/shipid:993261/mmsi:477712400/imo:9695121/vessel:cscl_glob

[Vermont Lt]

Too bad they have nothing to ship these days.

Their shipping index is horrible.

[Wingy]

Probably won’t fit in place of my VW TDI.

[Flick Lives]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Excellent article on Reuters last month about the economics of megaships. The numbers are truly astounding. Article explains how shippers optimize their fleets according to fuel cost. Insurers are projecting the collision of two megaships would cost them $1B to $2B! That's a lot of stuff on two ships.

Megaships are worsening overcapacity in the container market

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Largest engine ever"? Hardly. That's not a midget at the lower left of this pic. You wouldn't believe the size of the largest supercritical boilers. Of course, they are hard to squeeze into a ship engine room and you really don't need an 80 knot megaship.

[going hot]

Would make a nifty Trojan horse/ship

[Conan the Librarian]

We've one of thne of these in our 36ft Tashiba:

It does ok by itself. Yanmar 44hp.

[central_va]

If we would make our own crap again these things would be unnecessary. Maybe we could turn the employment situation around.