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Re: Artificial islands
Post by SYED   » Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:53 pm

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Say a fully modern safehold ship, iron hulled, and up to date tech. It could hunt down so much more, so establishing an alternative system now, ready to tAke up the strain of the market.
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Re: Artificial islands
Post by n7axw   » Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:31 pm

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SWM wrote:
n7axw wrote:I am not quite grasping your point. I am not saying that there isn't any petroleum out there. But at least in my own mind, an oil field is a place where oil is actually being produced, whether it is actually petroleum being extracted from the ground or by oil producing plants being harvested. My useage is fairly common parlance. At least for oil field workers which is something I took a shot at, to say that a new oil field is being opened up is to say that oil has been discovered and wells are being drilled to extract it.

That's where the confusion lies. The common definition of oil field is a place where oil deposits exist, whether or not they are being drilled. You are confusing people by meaning something different.


No problem as long as in the end we get it straighted out and understand where everybody is coming from. I don't disagree with the notion that Merlin knows where those petroleum deposits are at.

I also agree they will be needed soon

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Re: Artificial islands
Post by Rob the Fiend   » Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:14 pm

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Why do everyone seem to assume that using oil to power ships would require a IC engine?
Most modern warships not powered by nuclear gremlins( ;) ),
or gas turbines, use oil fired boilers and steam turbines.
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Re: Artificial islands
Post by Castenea   » Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:18 pm

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Rob the Fiend wrote:Why do everyone seem to assume that using oil to power ships would require a IC engine?
Most modern warships not powered by nuclear gremlins( ;) ),
or gas turbines, use oil fired boilers and steam turbines.

Not quite, new build ships today tend to use atomic boiler, combined cycle gas turbines, or diesels (possibly like the gas turbines using hot exhaust gases to boil water). Various grades of fuel oil were the fuel of choice from ~1910 until ~1970(I think). I believe that the Iowas were among the last ships in the US Navy to have oil fired boilers, and they left active service ~1992.
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Re: Artificial islands
Post by fleadermouse   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:11 am

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Steam boiler to turbine power is still in use in the USN

Primarily for mid sized and larger ships especially support vessels
It is true that all new carriers are CVN now with the last conventional one being the USS Kennedy CV 67 with 8 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 1200 psi to four turbines to four shafts at 70,000 shp each .

Very similar engineering to the Iowa class but about 25 years newer. Same boiler manufacturer, drive shafts turned on the same lathe

CV 67 was decomissioned and placed in reserve in2007 and is slated to be replaced by a Ford class CVN
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Re: Artificial islands
Post by SYED   » Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:21 am

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How do they hunt the seas nets and spears. They could get steam/gas powered spear guns for the ship
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