(mini-rant) Haiti, aircraft carriers, and stupid people

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Actually, I think we'd get more energy if we could harness the irrational hate and ignorance of the right.

D'ems be fi'tin words. Let me get my guns and religion. The we have a go at'er Mookie

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Some countries just have an issue with nuke boats in their ports. -shrugs-

Danmark doesn't allow nukes, and it's not a left/right thing.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Now that he mentions it doesent a carrier require a deep water port?

Affirmative.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Actually, I think we'd get more energy if we could harness the irrational hate and ignorance of the right.

Maybe, but im neither right nor left.

So have at it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

Danmark doesn't allow nukes, and it's not a left/right thing.

Exactly. I think it was the tsunami in Burma were the US offered assitance but they did not want the nuke carrier in their port. Some countries are just that way with a nuke boat. -shrugs-

[ETR3(SS)]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

But I dont see how you would use a Carrier to power a city. There are several logistic issues to contend with.

For one thing the voltage phase and frequency most likely would not match. Then how to deliver the power? It's not like plugging in an extension cord. Then theres the safety issues ... overcurrent protection, arc fault protection, physical protection.

Finally theres the unseen factor. Lets say you ran some heavy copper cables to transmitt the power. It is almost assuredly only a matter of time before someone tries to steal that copper. It's Haitai thats how they do things.

No personally I think there efforts would be better put into re-establishing what little infrastructure they had there to begin with.

It is quite possible.

Tacoma used the Lexington's boilers like a homeowner would a generator drug out of the garage after an outage, powering a quarter of the city from December through January of the next year.

All of the equipment is onboard the carrier. The only thing needed would be the shore power cables.

[ETR3(SS)]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Some countries just have an issue with nuke boats in their ports. -shrugs-

Spain, Italy, Japan...the list goes on.

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Exactly. I think it was the tsunami in Burma were the US offered assitance but they did not want the nuke carrier in their port. Some countries are just that way with a nuke boat. -shrugs-

Burma is run by a military junta which brings xenophobic paranoia to a whole new level, but I think their main reason for refusing assistance is that the damage occurred in areas where most of their domestic opposition lived. To the junta it's much easier just to let those folks die than allow foreign rescuers in to help them (and by extension let the outside world find out how bad it is there).