Russia starts building a "concrete fleet"

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The day before, the largest factory shop in our country started working. Its dimensions are really impressive: 345 x 280 x 93 meters. The enterprise, which will employ more than 5 thousand people around the clock, is part of the Center for the construction of large-capacity offshore structures of the Arctic LNG-2 project.

But why did Russia need such a truly "gigantic" structure? The thing is that no less large ships will be built on it.



Moreover, the latter will be assembled not from metal, but from concrete, which seems incredible. Nevertheless, they learned to build such floating platforms in the XNUMXth century.

The "Concrete Fleet" has a number of advantages: it is not subject to corrosion, keeps well on the water, and also does not require a large amount of metal.

At the same time, such ships also have disadvantages: they have too much draft and are extremely clumsy. However, for some purposes they are ideal.

For example, to create floating LNG plants, which is what specialists at the aforementioned enterprise will do. Despite the fact that it is advisable to build natural gas liquefaction plants directly near the fields, this option is not always suitable.

In particular, it will be extremely difficult and costly to build a plant in the Arctic, where, by the way, we have enough deposits. It is for this purpose that the so-called mobile LNG will be created, which can be brought ashore and put into operation at any time.

It is worth noting that in the case of our gas production volumes, the vessel with the plant must be truly gigantic. Today, simply no one builds such.

That is why it was decided to launch its own "gigantic" plant in Murmansk, where Russia has already started building its "concrete fleet".

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    1. 0
      19 May 2022 11: 02
      Combat semi-stationary platforms at the entrance and exit of the NSR and in other interesting places, such as the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, Kaliningrad, the Gulf of Mexico (offhand). IN AND. up to 600 tons of only one module allows...
    2. bsb
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      19 May 2022 11: 35
      Fossil fuel marine engines should become a thing of the past. The real prospect is movement on electric motors. Electricity must be extracted from sea water. Sea water is an inexhaustible source of electricity created by Nature due to the electrolytic dissociation of water with the formation of ions charged with electricity: anions and cations. How to extract electricity from the oceans and seas-invention: "A method for obtaining electricity from underwater sea currents (including ebbs and flows) and a device for its implementation", RF patent No. 2735039. It can be used for the electric propulsion of the vessel when it moves in sea water for charging batteries and converting direct current to alternating current. The use of the invention “Hydroelectric power station” without a high-rise dam and reservoir, patent of the Russian Federation “2748104, can also ensure the generation of electricity on a ship. Just do not wait until they sell it abroad and then buy it. And in Japan, a battery-powered ship is already running. Will we catch up again?
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      19 May 2022 14: 20
      It all ended quickly, I came from this construction site, it is not known when this will resume
    4. +2
      19 May 2022 21: 14
      Quote from bbs
      Fossil fuel marine engines should become a thing of the past. The real prospect is movement on electric motors. Electricity must be extracted from sea water. Sea water is an inexhaustible source of electricity created by Nature due to the electrolytic dissociation of water with the formation of ions charged with electricity: anions and cations. How to extract electricity from the oceans and seas-invention: "A method for obtaining electricity from underwater sea currents (including ebbs and flows) and a device for its implementation", RF patent No. 2735039. It can be used for the electric propulsion of the vessel when it moves in sea water for charging batteries and converting direct current to alternating current. The use of the invention “Hydroelectric power station” without a high-rise dam and reservoir, patent of the Russian Federation “2748104, can also ensure the generation of electricity on a ship. Just do not wait until they sell it abroad and then buy it. And in Japan, a battery-powered ship is already running. Will we catch up again?

      You can't keep up with all the idiots. I recommend that anyone who believes in miracles pick up high school textbooks and read chemistry and physics textbooks. Megawatts of electrical energy can be taken anywhere. It's not a question. The question is the price.
      1. +1
        21 May 2022 14: 37
        And in EROY. If the price can be subsidized * (nail file), then you can’t deceive physics. EROEI (English energy returned on energy invested), or EROI (energy return on investment - the ratio of energy received to spent, energy profitability) in physics, economic and environmental energy - the ratio of the amount of usable (useful) energy received from a particular source energy (resource), to the amount of energy spent to obtain this energy resource.
    5. +2
      19 May 2022 21: 23
      Quote from bbs
      Fossil fuel marine engines should become a thing of the past. The real prospect is movement on electric motors. Electricity must be extracted from sea water. Sea water is an inexhaustible source of electricity created by Nature due to the electrolytic dissociation of water with the formation of ions charged with electricity: anions and cations. How to extract electricity from the oceans and seas-invention: "A method for obtaining electricity from underwater sea currents (including ebbs and flows) and a device for its implementation", RF patent No. 2735039. It can be used for the electric propulsion of the vessel when it moves in sea water for charging batteries and converting direct current to alternating current. The use of the invention “Hydroelectric power station” without a high-rise dam and reservoir, patent of the Russian Federation “2748104, can also ensure the generation of electricity on a ship. Just do not wait until they sell it abroad and then buy it. And in Japan, a battery-powered ship is already running. Will we catch up again?

      To advertise your own invention to the devil knows what kind of audience is the cry of a drowning man. Apparently, you could not fool a single more or less knowledgeable engineer, and, from hopelessness ..... The fact that you consider the battery to be a source says a lot. You did not attend physics lessons at all, having smoked all the lessons in the school toilet for all school time.
      1. +1
        22 May 2022 12: 28
        The trouble of our time is that smart people are full of doubts, while fools are sure that they are right. BB probably didn’t even go to school, but you flatter him: "he smoked in the school toilet."
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