Tanker.
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.
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Well this one is a giant duck.
That still counts. Right?
https://youtu.be/affuETWhCPE
Poor duck having trouble in China
In fact there is nothing else on planet earth it makes electricity just sitting there without moving parts
A thermocouple?
Add them together for a thermopile.
For some reason I get the picture of Water World in my mind.
Look kids photovoltaics sit there and make electricity - you don’t get easier than that
Sounds like a Stallone and Arnold movie. ...:-D
I think they break them up after running full speed onto the beach.There is youtube video of it.
Tanker.
Except Stalone showed how to escape from them.
Not scuttled, but scraped
That make much more sense - make something capable of treating all of the sick and dying caused by the lack of energy due to the "Green New Deal".
Perfect. Are they going to beam the electricity back to shore?
How about we turn them into floating high temperature furnaces. They will travel around the world, cleaning up all the crap that’s floating the oceans and burning it at high temps.
Just like the communists they probably are, these Greenies always focus on energy PRODUCTION, not DISTRIBUTION. How are you going to get electrical power from some “waveship” the middle of the ocean to users on land? Who is going to pay for the installation and maintenance of submarine power conductors?
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