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> a capacity of 241MWh At an expensive $100/MWh that's about $25k worth of power. Who builds an expensive ship to transport $25k worth of anything? Even with
by pyrale 3y ago
> a capacity of 241MWh
At an expensive $100/MWh that's about $25k worth of power. Who builds an expensive ship to transport $25k worth of anything?
Even with electricity being one or two orders of magnitude more expensive, this would be a bad idea.
> It expands on earlier concepts presented by [...] startup [...]
Looks like the main business is fleecing VCs.
- mech987987 3y ago$100/MWh is pretty cheap. Around here the retail rate I pay on my power bill is something like 12 cents per kWh which is $120/MWh. But on your broad point I agree. I couldn't see it being economical for anything other than emergencies or other situations where power is waaaaayyy more expensive than retail rates.
- pyrale 3y ago> Around here the retail rate I pay on my power bill is something like 12 cents per kWh which is $120/MWh. A cargo ship does not retail its load. You would still need a transport and a distribution network behind it, as well as a production plant somewhere across the world. With $100 worth of power at the ship terminal, you could very well pay another $50-60 of transport cost and maybe $30-40 in taxes.