Comment by hwillis
2 days ago
It does have to be thin. You need to fit as much as possible on a boat and volume increases quadratically with thickness- so if glass is 500 MV/m and XLPE is 150 MV/m you would need to carry 11x more of it. Refilling means hundreds of miles back to shore.
Modern cable layers can carry thousands of kilometers of cable. they have massive tanks.