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For those curious according to this source https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/ an Aircraft carrier produces about 191 Megawatts an hour

• pfdietz 4y ago
• zardo 4y ago
  It's actually Megawatt-hours per hour.
• tialaramex 4y ago
  Understandably, since they're for a boat and the whole point is to move the boat, that's not actually electricity. They mostly make steam, which is used to turn propellers, which are used to move the boat. They do make some electricity, well, by domestic standards it's a lot of electricity, but in terms of a country's need for electricity it's a drop in the bucket. The Ford is probably capable of making 125MW of electricity (details are classified) and is the only carrier of its type in service for a year or two yet. Older US carriers have smaller, less capable reactors and are less equipped to generate electricity from the steam. How much is 125MW? Well, roughly this, one random mid-size wind farm: https://www.scottishpowerrenewables.com/pages/black_law.aspx https://www.scottishpowerrenewables.com/pages/black_law.aspx Admittedly you decide when you get 125MW from your aircraft carrier, whereas the wind blows when it likes - and the carrier is portable, sort of, but that's just not very much juice and it's the only one of its kind in the world.