Re: fuel problem: yes, but I'm not talking about putting all the boilers on line to drive the ship, maybe just one (or two, running one at a time?) of them, converted to alcohol, like everything else out there. Just enough to run some of the generators and distillers and the like. If we believe in the power of methanol, there's a whole lot of plants to get chopped up over on the Florida mainland!
EDIT: now that I'm positing a big ship as an instant barracks, did Mobile and the BB Alabama get hit? That's a plenty stable place to live, too.
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Last edited by Adm.Lee; 04-26-2012 at 09:08 PM.
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