When are we getting nuclear powered ocean liners?
>>2063465Never. Bunker oil is still cheap, and sea fairing is the domain of turd world’s working for peanuts. That’s the exact opposite of what you need to operate a nuclear vessel.
>>2063465read up on the NS Otto Hahnhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn_(ship)
forget that, when the fuck are we getting massive hovercraft ferries again?
>>2063544it bugs me that the personnel are so exposed in a ge style hovercraft, coanda effect craft maybe a double shell protecting the props i think you can change pressure under the craft for steering instead of pressurizing the entire belly i think only only the lip of high pressure can hold up the craft like a homes foundation, load on the outer walls
>>2063465Same time we get modular land nuclear....pass the hat...
>>2063544never, they're loud as fuck, very fuel inefficient, the entire point of them is amphibiousness which is irrel for a ferry, and it turns out waves exist and will btfo you hovercraft 9 months out of the year
>>2066152/n/ will unironically defend shattering the windows of 30,000 houses every day to get oligarchs from london to new york in 3 hours flat but a little comfy hovercraft noise that doesn't hurt anyone except some walruses is too much
>>2066152>very fuel inefficientWe could probably improve that at least. There's been a ton of work on propeller design as part of making planes more efficient.
>>2066180it will never be as efficient as a normal ship because normal ships dont have to spend fuel to stay afloat at all**bilge pumps dont count
>>2063465NS Savannah was a combination cargo/passenger ship.
Probably not the best place to ask but seeing you cruise ship autists hereI've been curious, if you had waves of about 4 meters or so, how much would a cruise ship rise or pitch? I've heard you don't even feel the movement on modern ships, but I've been wondering if the ship actually moves the same amount up and down and if there's way to calculate the movement
