Re: The Future Navy Will Be Nuclear

Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

:richardcasady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Casady) wrote:
:
:>>We don't have bases in any of those places. You want to UNREP fuel
:>>cell fuel? Sorry, but that's just insane.
:>
:> Fuel cell fuel is generally alcohol. So ethanol is hard to UNREP? You
:> don't mention the oxidiser, which is the hard part.
:
:Hydrogen in this case. Still, not impossible.
:

The German Navy considers the stuff so unsafe that they keep the fuel
and oxidizer storage OUTSIDE the pressure hull, only allowing it in as
it is burned by the motors.

You might want to handle that stuff underway on a rolling deck, but I
don't. One spark at the wrong time and the class has a new nickname -
'Zippo'.

--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden
.

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