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It would be nice to put them on new oil tankers, but then what would we do with all the excess bunker fuel? Can low quality fuel be used for anything else? Als
by dm2 12y ago
It would be nice to put them on new oil tankers, but then what would we do with all the excess bunker fuel? Can low quality fuel be used for anything else?
Also it would be very bad if one was taken by pirates, much worse than any existing cargo or oil ship.
Putting nuclear reactors on airplanes is just asking for trouble. Planes crash and it's very difficult to avoid, even a B2 has crashed and it's almost 100% computer controlled.
- maxerickson 12y agoYou can "just" build out more of the right type of refinery capacity (assuming the economics work out right). I don't know much about it, but I'm pretty sure much of it can be cracked and that the desulphurization is more expensive than it is impossible.
- dm2 12y agoThis looks like a good explanation of what you are talking about: http://www.kittiwake.com/refinery_process http://www.kittiwake.com/refinery_process
- forgotketchup 12y agoThe (historically) low price of bunker fuel led to the development of turbine locomotives for railroads[1]. The idea was that the low price made up for the inefficiency (in operational practice) of turbine engines. When the plastics industry figured out how to use bunker fuel, turbine locomotives became uneconomic to operate. I'd guess that nuclear cargo ships would simply lead to slightly cheaper plastic. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_GTELs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_GTELs