Is This Jumbo Diesel Electric Submarine A True Nuclear Alternative?

Foxtrot Alpha ^ | November3, 2014 | Tyler Rogoway

[smokingfrog]

Yes. I’m a Dirk Pitt fan.

[glorgau]

> Ten knots?

Carrier escort?

[WMarshal]

I am holding my breath for a Lockheed high beta fusion reactor
powered submarine. It has a range of “until the end of the natural life of the crew”. Imagine some behemoth crushing deep and harvesting its own deuterium from seawater. It’s only limit would be food.

[DoughtyOne]

Do they have one?

[Steely Tom]

Thank you blam.

Thanks for the picture too.

[Captainpaintball]

In other news, Odinga and the Pentagon have introduced plans to create solar powered and wind powered submarines.

[logi_cal869]

http://www.ibtimes.com/goodbye-oil-us-navy-cracks-new-renewable-energy-technology-turn-seawater-fuel-allowing-1568455

[blam]

"Thank you for your service, Blam. Guppy II?"

Yup, Guppy II.

[smokingfrog]

It takes 23,000 gallons of seawater to make 1 gallon of fuel. The question is, how much energy is required to process all that seawater?

[logi_cal869]

Well...it requires a nukular reactor, of course. /s

I just have to laugh every time I read about our military doing something unilateral (like ‘green fuel’ @ $50+/gal).

A guy can only barf so often...

[Mariner]

"Ten knots? Don’t you get a ticket for obstructing traffic?"

Yep, limp onto station and then wait to die.

The life of an AIP Sub Sailor.

I'm a big proponent of AIP in the small form...for the brown water littorals. The Persian Gulf is a perfect application. Maybe some patrols in the South China Sea, the Med and the Baltic.

But when you get out the Blue Water, you better be able to swim.

There's NO QUARTER out there and nobody will even know when you die.