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How Not to Build an Aircraft Carrier
- ThrustVectoring 9y ago>the Ford’s four generators were designed to provide triple the total electrical power provided by the eight generators on the Nimitz class — 13,800 versus 4,160 volts. Nitpick: voltage is not the units that electrical power comes in. At best, you can convert to power delivered by a fixed-resistance conductor - V^2/R , which means that the power provided through equivalent wiring connections has gone up by a factor of nine, not three.
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- bobbington 9y agoIt's like any new technology. More expensive than you think. But to give up now after so much spent?