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The Lebanon has no electricity! It's a catastrophe for
everyone there in every way. I don't understand the
complex reasons as to why the power supply has failed,
but it seems to me that many thousands of small
generators are hardly the answer, and a lot of people
and businesses simply don't
have them.
I propose converting a substantial ship into a floating
emergency power supply that could be sent to places
like Beirut to help out while repairs are made.
Ideally a mostly non-polluting nuclear engine would
provide the power, but failing that, super efficient
conventional generators would keep an array of batteries
on standby charge ready for immediate use anywhere in
the world at short notice. Cables and the other
apparatus required to enable the supply to be plugged
directly into any existing network would be carried on
board.
The ship would be used to provide emergency power to
an entire city during a period of catastrophe.
Also available as a zeppelin!
Floating Small Modular Reactor
https://world-nucle...ating-plant-to-grid
[Frankx, Oct 10 2021]
Ah yes, here we are:
I_20Got_20Your_20Nu...ctor_20Right_20Here
Your competitor turns out to be [theircompetitor] [pertinax, Oct 10 2021]
Nuclear Reactor Boats
I_20Got_20Your_20Nu...ctor_20Right_20Here
[theircompetitor, Oct 10 2021]
Nuclear-powered Airships
https://saemobilus....org/content/600278/
- but not aerial power stations [Frankx, Oct 11 2021]
[link]
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A really good idea - floating Small Modular
Reactors are a thing: [link] for a Russian one -
Akademik Lomonosov (21,000 tonnes, 35Mw).
But new technology. Reactor designed to burn up
and be replaced, rather than refuelled. |
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There are obvious challenges with nuclear security
though, and still waste issue to resolve. |
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I love the sentiment, [xenzag], but I'm pretty sure the actual
idea has been done here before. |
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Apart from the emergency deployment.... but
clearly baked, though I can't imagine Russia doing
anything to help any other country except
themselves. |
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yeah, had this idea in 2005 |
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In that case I'll keep it to wind you up and for no
other reason. |
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What [a1] would have said if he were more hotheaded. |
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This gets even better and better. |
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I'm going to gazump this idea with a 49,990 ton Floating Power
Station. |
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And our committee concludes that the exponentially-rapid posting of the same halfbakery idea with the number incremented or decremented by one over the course of the following 24 hours was the ultimate cause of the collapse of the internet and so consequentially the end of Western civilisation and the death of over 90% of human beings. |
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You've just turned yourself into 8th. Well done! |
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If this were in the form of a zeppelin, I'd be very hard
pressed not to give it a [+] |
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Behold a zeppelin joins the aquatic version. |
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OK, truly halfbaked. A nuclear power station airship that can
be deployed to crisis zones for emergency power. Flies in and
tethers over a power distribution point. |
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No-one's done it before, though there were some ideas for
nuclear-powered airships in the 50's/60's [link] |
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I have some safety concerns. [+] |
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If it were fusion powered, it would generate its own helium for lift? |
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