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Comment Re: Maybe good (Score 1) 123

Had they held on with the Savannah just a bit longer then it may have proven to be profitable against oil fired ships.

In the case of the Savannah, yes and no. That thing was never intended or designed to be economical. It was designed to look cool and be a combination freighter/passenger liner (you don't really see this offered in today's market). A modern nuclear powered cargo ship would look just like a container ship of today.

Some ships and ports have the means to bring shore power to the ships so they don't need to run their diesel generators while in port.

We have that today in Seattle. But the ships that really need it are the passenger liners that dock here. Cargo ships only need enough power to maintain the environment in a relatively small crew space. Passenger ships keep the lights and air conditioning running in a space designed for a few thousand people.

Selling power back to the grid? Probably not from cargo ships. They are usually direct drive from a main diesel to each propeller. Their utility power generation capacity is relatively small (see above). Cruise ship propulsion is more likely to be diesel electric. So there's a reason for having a large capacity generator system. Which can be resold.

Comment Re:I agree (Score 4, Insightful) 105

Yes AI may be generating a lot of code now. But you need someone to find where what was generated was weak, or inefficient.

Ever work with a couple of clowns who can't code worth shit? I have. And most of the time it's easier to throw their stuff out and start over.

Comment Housed within NASA (Score -1, Troll) 75

So there they are. Go get them.

The problem with climate web sites is that there are hundreds of them. All reposting the same few studies. And all referencing each other.

I know what Google bombing is. The correctness of information shouldn't depent on how many copies are floating around. How much CO2 is being generated by this anyway?

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