alt Hacker NewsI am very skeptical. Battery tech is still far away from the energy density of diesel fuel. How far could an electric ship go and what could it carry?
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hn12 • yesterday at 10:38 PM
... and energy densities of batteries will _stay_ well below that of tanks of hydrocarbons, as https://web.archive.org/web/20130204210054/http://h30565.www... explains.
scythe • yesterday at 10:42 PM
Depends on the current fuel-to-payload ratio of the diesel ships. If it's 3% and batteries would push it to 10%, it's not a huge problem. But if it's 15% and batteries would push it to 50% you're losing a lot of capacity.
There are multiple electric ferries already in operation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ampere
They are quite impressive but they are still very far away from your average ocean going cargo vessel.