Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 13/12/2024 10:31, D wrote:

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 Good, large, diesel/oil engines are still the
 solution for large commercial carriers.

 Subtract taxes, and compare only the raw cost, and the economics look even better! On gasoline at least 50% is tax, so remove that, and we can happily continue for at least a generation or two. =)

The point is that the economics of small modular reactors plunked into a ship and monitored  more or less remotely  by satellite link, with lots of smart RCMs (reactor control modules) scattered around them now fall in favour of nuclear.
Once everybody accepts the idea.
That is why a consortium of ship operators is looking very closely at it.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/new-study-considers-nuclear-powered-bulk-carriers
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/regulatory-assessment-of-nuclear-powered-cargo-shi
and many more...  https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/search?search=Ships
Now these bulk carriers have commercial clout. Enough to buy many many politicians and dictators.
Nuclear ships will happen.
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