The Crazy Amount of Power Needed to Move World Largest Container Ships

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[rickashcroft]

I am a naval architect with more than 45 years experience in the industry, including more than a decade spent in a research lab and also in the design department of a major shipyard. Good visuals and generally enjoyable video but you need to do some fact-checking and get you information right, I have a some corrections: wind turbine propulsion - the picture shown was of a sail-assisted propulsion system. A system that does work under many environmental conditions but is NOT a wind turbine - although they are in common use on maritime drones and pleasure craft to recharge batteries for electric propulsion systems. Second: HFO, heavy fuel oil, is NOT the same as diesel fuel, which in its variants is commonly referred to as MGO (Marine Gasoil) or MDO (Marine Diesel Oil). There are a lot of international restrictions on the use of HFO and it should not be confused with diesel fuel, which has a different set of restrictions and requirements. Third: the type of fuel has nothing to do with radiated noise. For airborne noise, the main engine, regardless of fuel type, is the primary source of air- and structure-borne noise. Underwater radiated noise is virtually always caused by the propeller. Period. Fourth: the first large LNG powered commercial ships anywhere were CONTAINER SHIPS built by NASSCO shipyard in the San Diego for TOTE, an American shipping company, not ships built years later for CMA CGM. While U.S. shipping companies and shipyards do not own or build the most ships in the world, they led the way and continue to move toward greener fuels. Fifth: the any diesel engine (and many gasoline engines) can run on LNG with some modifications. The engines you discuss here are modified diesel engines - the diesel cycle uses pressure to cause combustion of the fuel - and the primary modifications are to the fuel system. From a design standpoint, converting a diesel engine to operate on LNG de-rates the output power about 10% compared to the same engine running on diesel fuel. The engine cylinder pressures when using LNG are NOT an issue.

[nombreapellido]

Can we take a moment to appreciate what it takes to machine the engine components.😮😮

[Joseph-fwxx]

Every day I'm amazed at what man can build

[kyles]

It's crazy how we take raw materials from the ground and turn it into this and that.

[kwyorman]

They can haul massive amounts of cargo around the world and knock a bridge down in seconds flat.

[farriswilliams]

You have no idea how much effort and experience is put into building such machines.

[woohunter]

You know it’s a big boat when, you have incredible drone shots of the engine room!

[iShallEatChips]

"Building these ships takes months." More like years.

[thefivepoints]

Why is it that stuff transported on road is a shipment and stuff transported on a ship is cargo?

[jordansiqueido]

Shout out to the dude who got to fly the tiny drone around the engine room 🤙

[Anne]

the extreme scale of these ship builds is beyond amazing, to think what tiny little men can build is just insane crazy and yet we still treat each other like dirt

[MaximusWard-zg]

Every day I'm amazed at what man can build. Ships powered by wind? What a time to be alive .

[deanwilde]

Ships powered by wind? What a time to be alive 🤯

[JerryWalker]

The engines may be huge but in terms of fuel use they are tiny. A 50, 000 ton bulk carrier burns around 0.4 tons of fuel per mile which may sound like a lot but when you look at it in terms of fuel per ton per mile it is only around 8 grams per mile per ton. So if a 1 ton car had this economy it could drive around 100 miles on one litre of fuel or around 450 mpg.

[jeffreylinehan]

Propulsion units and engines are not the same thing. Replacing external propulsion units whilst not in dry dock and running is NOT possible.

[davidsmith]

MASSIVE Pieces Of Machinery. The Way They Stay Afloat Is Unbelieveable.

[DModelsToys]

I just can´t believe that us humans are capable to build such sophisticated machine with thousands of individual parts thats fit with 100% accuracy and gigantic scale.

[jessdigs]

“Next, pistons are installed…”(shows connecting rod) “pistons are connected to the crankshaft” (no, no they’re not. They’re connected to the connecting rods)

[BuzzSargent]

Good show. When these monsters are empty it seems the props are half out of the water.

[paedrufernando]

@03:47 is the answer you are looking for... equivalent to a 545 hatchbacks ..one Hatchback has 180HP...so 98000/180 = 545 cars..this power can move 19000 containers upto 23knots