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Nuclear vessel 'could be floating charging station for electric cruise ships' (world-nuclear-news.org)
2 points by dmitriy_ko 1509 days ago
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It could make ammonia from air and water. Current engines can be modified to run on ammonia.

Fueling can be done in an hour.

Power storage feels like a complete non-starter, without radical breakthroughs. It'd be vaguely interesting to run the numbers & see what % of a ship would need to be hydrogen gas storage, perhaps. Whether that is for a single leg of a jaunt makes a big difference. I wonder how often cruise ships tend to refuel.