China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com)

slash.jit writes: China has launched the world's first all-electric cargo ship. It can travel 80 kilometers (approximately 50 miles) after being charged for 2 hours. As noted by Clean Technica, 2 hours is roughly the amount of time it would take to unload the ship's cargo while docked. Oh...and Ironically, the world's first all-electric cargo ship is being used to move coal.
China Daily reports that the 230 foot long vessel is equipped with a 2,400 kWh lithium-ion battery, a cheaper and cleaner power supply. And Clean Technica notes that that battery is comprised of 1,000 individual lithium-ion packs, while "Adding enough power to carry more cargo is simply a matter of adding more battery packs."

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And BTW....

[Noishkel]

I did notice that your graph mentions that only about 4% of that power comes from Wind and only 1.1% comes from solar. The next biggest chuck of it is coming from hydroelectric at 19.7% I guess you think building a shit load of new dams doesn't come with it's own serious problems. And that's before we get into the major issue that Chinese construction techniques and poor safety records.

... it's still just 1.1%

[Noishkel]

And also I guess we're just supposed to forget that China has rampant problems with air quality and particular matter. All of which really fucks with solar power efficient. And you're just not going to ramp up one enough to displace the other.

Of course at all assumes that the Chinese government isn't just lying about their plans and capability to even do this. Something that the government of that nation has systemic problems with doing both historically and today. yeah that whole 'Great Leap Forward' thing is kind of a big deal. Killed a few tens of millions of people, you know. Maybe you should look into it.