RE:RE:RE:New usage for electric batterysstanem1 wrote: liquid metal battery would do for ships and utility
Hmm. Thanks, Stanem - but I was thinking solid-state would be much more likely, as they seem to be less prone to combustion. Nothing worse than a fire on a ship...you don't have many places to escape to! Look at this most recent fiasco with the MV 2M Kingston in Victoria...where deck cargo in containers was on fire. The Emergency Tenders were trying to help - but given what was in the containers - they could only spray down the hull to keep it from spreading (as water entering the containers could have caused a conflagration!). Think about the reluctance of fire-fighters trying to deal with a Tesla fire...you see my point.
The batteries would most likely have to be seated within the hull. Given that, I would think that any Skipper (or ship-owner) would want the power-source with the least-likely risk of combustion.
If you know more about this than I do, please let us know.
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