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wow i had no idea they had some much generation and distribution going on. That's a lot of power they're moving. That's a lot of things that can go wrong. Even
by usernamed7 2y ago
wow i had no idea they had some much generation and distribution going on. That's a lot of power they're moving. That's a lot of things that can go wrong. Even with all the backups, complex systems are complex, and there's obviously a gap in redundancy. Still, better a system failure than a human one.
It was interesting that on the video you can see the ship lose/regain/lose power, and now it makes sense.
- gizmo686 2y agoThe ship left port weighing 112,383 metric tons (ship+cargo). Travelling at it's loaded full speed of 16.8 knots, that comes out to be about 10.6 GigaJoulese or 3 Megawatt-hours of kinetic energy. TNT has an energy density of about 4.2MJ/kg. So the kinetic energy of the Dali at full speed is equal to about 2.5 metric tons of TNT. According to the report, the Dali was running at slow speed, which is 10 knots, giving "only" 0.7 tons worth of TNT in kinetic energy. Granted, ships operate in a relatively low friction environment, so you do not need that much power to get it moving. However, modern shipping vessels are massive.
- smegsicle 2y agotnt is the more commonly used metric but to put it in more practical civilian terms that would be around a trunkload of anfo (might need to share the back seat but who uses all that legroom anyway)