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Bird’s-Eye-View of Largest Floating Structure Ever Built
- oh_noes 11y agoOh yes, it's all coming together. The signs are all there if you know how to read them... 1. They've finished this gigantic over-budget set piece. 2. Kevin Costner is tanned, rested, and ready. Waterworld 2 is finally happening!
- amelius 11y agoI imagine this is what software would look like if it were physical.
- Plough_Jogger 11y agoNo, software is far more modular and rides on the top of a whale.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoI was just going to write it, then I saw that you did already. Nice one :)
- 13thLetter 11y agoIf this were physical software, I'd expect more of it to be on fire.
- pan69 11y agoOnly if the software in question had an AS detailed plan as these guys had before they started building it, maybe..
- zachrose 11y agoOr maybe the ship "plans" are like a binary, and the "design" of the ship is more like source code and specs.
- noobie 11y agoWon't we run out of fossil fuels in like 50 years tops? Why make such an investment? I am still, however, in awe of the magnitude of the project!
- ximeng 11y ago"Shell plans to moor the Prelude FLNG some 200 kilometers off western Australia at the Prelude gas field for 25 years, where it is expected to produce the equivalent of 110,000 BOE per day." 25 years < 50 years
- fdej 11y ago110000 BOE per day = 7.78 GW. An estimate from 2013 cited on Wikipedia claims the cost of the vessel is US$10.8 to 12.6 billion. Is there a reliable estimate of how much solar power you could install for the same cost?
- timthelion 11y agohttp://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data In 2012 something like 3.5 GW were installed for something like $12 billion USD. See the graph titled "U.S. Solar Industry Forcast" for output See the graph titled "Value of Yearly U.S. Solar Instalations" for cost Personally, I hope that the US solar instalations will last more than 25 years. I also hope that Shell is paying Australia for the gass that is being pumped out. I presume that the total cost will be about the same as solar. However, natural gass is really usefull stuff and can be shipped and stored more efficiently than electricity. So even though the price is about the same as solar, the value is higher.
- geoffleyland 11y agoDo you know what they're quoting as capacity? Installed capacity would seem to suggest peak MW. Later on in the report they say that 490MW of "combined electric capacity" in schools equates to 642 GWh, which suggests that they're figuring annual output to be about 15% of installed capacity. So, is that 3.5GW of panels (in which case about 0.5GW averaged over a day) or 3.5GW of average capacity?
- bithead 11y agoThe individual sections being loaded reminded me of the Borg ship.
- Someone 11y agoLongest, maybe, but largest? This: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering_Spirit_(ship) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering_Spirit_(ship) has 50% more displacement (and also is a proper ship. It can propel itself) I guess there are some artificial floating islands that could lay claim to being the largest or longest, too (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island#Artificial_islands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island#Artificial_i...)
- jackgavigan 11y agoThat thing belongs in a Neal Stephenson novel.
- qnaal 11y agois 'oil company background music' a meme yet?
- codeddesign 11y agoAll I read from that article was the word "liquid". I'll get my popcorn ready for when that ship gets a haul breach.
- mcpherrinm 11y agoLNG quickly becomes a gas when leaked -- you won't see dramatic environmental disasters like with crude oil. It's also not flammable or explosive in its liquid form, so I suspect you won't see a dramatic explosive failure either. Of course, it could start leaking and burn when mixed with enough air, but I can't help but wonder how sustainable a fire that would be: The air/fuel mix would not be controlled at all, and would probably quickly burn and stop.
- MaysonL 11y agoTry googling "lng explosion". It is cold, so is denser than air and spreads out on the surface, and when ignited goes off with a big bang.
- namuol 11y agoI couldn't resist... http://vmashup.com/tQSLa38u http://vmashup.com/tQSLa38u
- zxc1234 11y agoHey don´t worry! No Koreans where interviewed! They are "just building the ship".