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> Nuclear would be much, much more expensive than battery for this application. But batteries of the capacity required to propel a container ship for long dist
by sofixa 4y ago
> Nuclear would be much, much more expensive than battery for this application.
But batteries of the capacity required to propel a container ship for long distances are impractical and would take far too much precious space and weight.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThe article is about why that's not true for shorter distances, and as soon as it's true for those, you do the math and find that floating supercharger stations are cheaper than nuclear. You could even build floating, nuclear powered supercharger stations, if nuclear didn't cost more than the alternatives.