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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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MIT team calls initial performance results of magnesium-antimony liquid metal battery “promising”

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Sadoway and Bradwell, along with Dr. Luis Ortiz, are also founders of Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications. After several weeks of cycling, the cells ceased to operate.

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