Posted on 06/30/2019 6:45:09 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As you read this, around 10,420 giants are heaving their way across the world’s oceans
Engineers believe it is possible to use the vast hull of oil tankers to create floating power stations that can convert the ocean swell into electricity. This is the ambitious plan to create the world’s first “waveships”.
“It works like a giant piston,” says Florent Trarieux, a renewable energy engineer who led tests on the waveship concept in scale models at Cranfield University. “We would put a turbine at the top of the chamber that is driven by the air as it is pulled back and forth by the water. We could put these in columns all down the length of a ship like an oil tanker.”
A very large tanker could have up to 35 moon pools, each 20m in diameter, they say.
A group of Dutch architects have also proposed turning old supertankers into floating public villages that contain shopping malls, concert venues, museums, swimming pools and a public park on the top deck. But the firm behind the concept, Chris Collaris Design, say they have yet to find anyone brave enough to take the concept further.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
On the other hand, my plan for massively scaled up Drinking Birds is simple and workable. With existing low-tech, just add water to keep it running.
How about we scuttle them across all of Iran’s ports?
There, fixed it.
The US navy hospital ship, the Comfort, is a converted oil tanker.
Don’t old ships get scuttled on the coast of somewhere like Bangladesh?
dumb enough to take the concept further.”
There, fixed it.
There is a lot of dumb in this article, and I know dumb.
The only workable perpetual motion machine to date is connected to the Treasury Department’s printing presses.
This proposal is seeking to tap into that “source.”
The concept has been around for a while, so if it is so great, why has it not been done? Just do it, Nike’s motto, notwithstanding.
The US navy hospital ship, the Comfort, is a converted oil tanker.
Its sister ship in the Pacific, the USNS Mercy, was also built on a supertanker hull (dunno if it was original spec or a refit). By volume they are larger then a Nimitz class aircraft carrier (IIRC).
“Don’t old ships get scuttled on the coast of somewhere like Bangladesh?”
Alang India is one such place.
Google satellite provides stunning overviews.
I remember seeing a segment on BBC World about a,decade ago.
They showed the ships run aground and the natives went to strip it.
Beached there for scrapping.
Slowing seaborne commerce / warship deployments at Iran’s ports is a totally different can of worms.
It’s not a perpetual motion machine any more than a windmill or watermill is.
Why would this even be necessary? The world is ending in 11.6 years.
Sounds like a job for Kramerica Industries.
Usually. Then the torches and cranes come pick it apart.
CC
Sounds good. Ships having water channeled to flood back and forth through them are well known for extremely long lifespans. /s
Why would this even be necessary? The world is ending in 11.6 years.
For the next eleven plus years, there are many bureaucrats, do-gooders, lobbyists, and various rent seekers that enjoy living high on the hog.
They prefer not to actually work, so the push this junk for more of the gravy train.
They will be useful in the future when the planet is covered with water.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.