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Originally Posted by Tachyon
1) a)Why are diesel engines used by Submarines on the surface? Why not Electric?
b)Again, why electric underwater...why not diesel?
2) Can ships use Electric engines? (WW2 era)
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Hi...
Well you got a lot of answers for the 1a 1b questions... About question 2 Yes... The sips in the WW2 era could have electric engines as the main motion source and they had... For example two american carriers Lexington and Saratoga had combined steam turbine and electric drive... The boilers were used to generate steam, the steam powered turbines, turbines' shafts were connected to electric generator, and they powered slow rotating electric motors... This solution is great for ships with fixed propelers so you dont have problems with stoping, starting, reversing engines with internal combustion... Well i don't want to be boring so i think i'll stop writing right now... And sorry for my english but it's not my native language
