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[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And I’m surprised cargo ships still run mostly on novelty sized diesel engines. Would be interesting to throw a small ultra safe nuclear powered engine on one of those or even just enforcing better fuel use instead of spamming low grade MDO.

It's a real shame that NS Savannah was designed as a weird half-passenger, half-cargo hybrid that made it uneconomical to operate. It's even more of a shame that protesting by hysterical anti-nuclear fearmongerers got it banned from ports and scared off anybody from building more traditional cargo ships with nuclear propulsion.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Before mine, too. I just read a lot. 🤷