Nuclear-Powered Floating City: the Largest American Aircraft Carrier Consumes as Much Energy as Eger or Sopron

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A modern American aircraft carrier produces as much energy as a medium-sized Hungarian city uses: the electrical capacity of the latest Ford-class carriers roughly rivals the entire energy demand of settlements the size of Eger, Nagykanizsa or Hódmezővásárhely. The energy appetite of the Navy's floating cities has increased dramatically in recent years, so the new generation carriers now operate almost like mini nuclear power plants.

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Modern aircraft carriers are not just warships, they are technological monstrosities that consume more electricity than a small city. Although most of the carriers currently in service are powered by conventional diesel or gas turbine engines, nuclear-powered units have been at sea for more than 60 years. And energy is needed not only to move the ships.