jessica in the kitchenMay 26

over-the-fold headline: "Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford To Act As Floating Nuclear Power Plant For Facilities On Land"

> The Pentagon is exploring ways to keep the power on at critical bases after attacks or natural disasters,

1. they are afraid of attacks on usa mainland
2. the Ford is turbofucked and they're looking for ways to hide it
3. they are looking to keep the fleet closer to home as the empire takes aim at central and south america

Show threadCharlie Stross

@SapphicGiraffic @Lazarou Carriers have been used as floating logistics hubs and power stations for many decades, but you can't plausibly use a CVN as a mobile power plant in a war zone where it might be attacked (they need to be under way to launch strike aircraft with a full payload—steaming into the wind shaves up to 40 knots off the airspeed planes need to become airborn).

This is probably more about natural disasters and decaying US infrastructure at home than about waging wars overseas.

May 26 at 6:53pmWeb
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 26
@cstross @SapphicGiraffic didn't they used to have a special ship for 'restarting American civilisation' or was that actually Science Fiction?
Show threadCharlie StrossMay 26
@Lazarou @SapphicGiraffic Not sure. In any case, a CVN's reactors probably put out around 400MW thermal at full power, so no more than 100MW electrical. That's not going to go far if you're trying to do a grid restart. Might suffice to get another power plant online, though.