Bizarre 460-foot "battery tanker" set to ship electrons by 2026

Summary

KEY POINTS:  

1. Ninety-six container-sized lithium-iron-phosphate battery modules and controllers on the demonstrator vessel, Battery Tanker X.
2. Due to be built in 2025.
3. Power X, the battery tanker builder, also owns battery factories.
4. A full-size Power Ark vessel should carry two gigawatt-hours—enough to run 70,000 average US homes for 24 hrs.

References

• MAY 2023 PowerX: World’s first battery tanker breaks cover-Offshore Energy
• MAY 2023 This electric tanker will carry 96 batteries across the ocean, transporting clean energy-electrek
• JUN 2023 Introducing the World’s First Battery Tanker ‘X’: The Inaugural Ship of Power Ark 100. On Track for Completion by 2025, with Field Testing Set to Commence in 2026-AAP
• JUN 2023 Battery Tankers as Energy Carriers-ee news

Source Information: 

• Article Source:  New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
• Media Check:   New Atlas-Bias and Credibility--Media Bias/Fact Check (HIGH CREDIBILITY)   
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