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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TomS" data-source="post: 309671" data-attributes="member: 1484">Electrical power generation isn't a hard problem.  The issue with the old carriers wasn't that the reactors didn't produce enough thermal power, but that they weren't set up to turn enough of that into electricity.  The Fords have much larger Ship Service Turbogenerators that can easily provide the electricity but they aren't much more powerful in raw terms.  For a conventional ship, all-electric propulsion or dedicated generators would provide plenty of power.  When the Brits were looking at switching the QEII to catapults, there were lots of problems but i don't think getting enough electricity was one of them.</blockquote>