Hybrid cars use deceleration to help charge the onboard batteries, but surely such techniques could be used for many things, besides just automobiles. Trains decelerate too and it takes miles for them to slow down and stop. What about ocean liners, aircraft carriers, cargo ships and giant dual hulled oil tankers? Can we charge up their on board systems via a breaking system friction device or set of paddles which would turn as the ship slowed? Well, if so, we could perhaps charge up the batteries for the ship while the ship was in port to use during its duration there. We could use giant ion-lithium batteries like the Canadian Power Company has made for disaster relief or islands. In fact the unneeded battery power could be plugged into an island power system upon docking and power up the extra needs that a Tour Ship with a few thousand passengers going into town might need. As that increased population could be over taxing for the islands current power generation. For a nuclear Aircraft carrier they have plenty of power but they could offload the generation for the smaller ships in their cruising fleet or recharge the batteries in the escort submarines or cruisers. How hard would such a ship braking system energy generator be to build? Well not much considering the future energy savings. So, consider this in 2006. |
