Re:Bizarre 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons b...
by jacquesm on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:38PM
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Even then you'd probably be better off shipping a mixed load of diesel trucks and large generators.
Re:Bizarre 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons b...
by seized on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:52PM
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Maybe they plan to swap batteries in and out of the ship, have a rotating set of ten (or whatever) batteries, one discharging, eight charging, load the tenth with a crane, swap out for the discharged one, cycle through...
Re:Bizarre 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons b...
by jacquesm on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:32AM
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No, I watched their video and it says the batteries are meant to stay on board.
Re:Bizarre 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons b...
by iancmceachern on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:42AM
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There are lots of grid scale battery companies, A123 was one, that were (still are?) Building giant battery packs into shipping containers as a way to store and deliver energy to the power grid during high/low cycles. One could conceive of just using those and loading and unloading them just like standard containers on a ship.
The only application of this that seems half feasible is maybe some kind of post-disaster recovery where for whatever reason you’ve ruled out using a generator.