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Comment by Findecanor

A small to medium size cruise ship has an engine at around 24'000 HP ≈ 176 MW.

The smallest terminal you can connect to a AAA battery is the same diameter as 00 AWG copper wire.

Provided that the engine has 100% efficiency and can turn 176MW of electricity into torque, to safely run power it needs through that 00 AWG wire, the battery would need to provide a voltage of at least 70 kV.

parent Findecanor 23 days ago

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