We all know that most ships have giant diesel motors, which turn huge shafts and are direct drive to the ships propeller and that such systems are standard in moving these mighty vessels across the oceans of the World. But is this the best we can do? Well no and we have also built wind powered ships as early as the Ming Dynasty with the Great Treasure Fleet under Zheng. In fact some of the Flag Ships in the Treasure Fleet where 500 feet long, thanks to advances in hull bulk head designs, based on a natures design of the bamboo trees. All this is of interest and proves that propelling ships can be done a number of ways indeed. Today we have giant aircraft carriers, which are nuclear powered and the Russians, Americans and Chinese all have nuclear submarines as well. Some submarines are electric. But what if we turned this whole thing up on its ears and developed laser powered ships using the exhaust of the diesel motors as our source of CO2? Think of what we are saying here? Light powered ships using the pollution already created by the motors. Is it really possible? Well sure we have steam powered ships too and CO2 lasers operate well above 2000 degrees. It is only a matter of harnessing that power you see? Consider all this in 2006. |
