TIL about powerships, special purpose ships on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource until a local power plant is built or until high demand in power supply is over
TIL about powerships, special purpose ships on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource until a local power plant is built or until high demand in power supply is over
I too have been known to get the powerships after a few nights of blackouts.
That’s interesting! There also exists a similar thing for 18 wheelers
Old diesel locomotives have been repurposed similarly, since they're literally a 3000hp generator and fuel tank on wheels.
I heard this can almost power a selfhosted AI
One step closer to the AI spacecraft and habitats in Iain M. Bank's Culture novels.
One more step, only a googolplex to go.
This has been done before,in the 1920s the USS Lexington, an electromotive aircraft carrier, was hooked up to Seattle to provide power when a hydro plant went dry in a drought.
Oh great, this terrible idea is actually going into works
It's often a disaster recovery type of thing.
That makes sense. In an earlier climate conference some oil billionaires had a similar idea, but instead to create artificial scarcity and drive energy prices up by moving the power plant to the highest bidder
Wait until you hear about Floating nuclear power plants.
That is awesome
I remember watching a youtube video about what i think was a large land train built by Russia that was a portable nuclear power station.
This was an excellent read, thank you for linking that Wikipedia article. I never knew about these and they are cool af