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A) Many large ships run with electric motors and diesel generators anyway, so it would be unsurprising if this ship did the same. B) I'm sure they can carry fa
by wiml 4y ago
A) Many large ships run with electric motors and diesel generators anyway, so it would be unsurprising if this ship did the same.
B) I'm sure they can carry fairly large swanky launches / tenders / whatever
C) This is interesting to me also. I suppose you could build a coffer dam around it anywhere you have a large enough shallow harbor. But even conventional large ships spend a lot of their time far away from any shipyard big enough to repair them, maybe it's just an accepted difficulty.
D) The $8-billion question, yes? The page doesn't seem to address this at all. It seems to be one designer's idle fantasy and a bunch of renders.