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Britain's Royal Navy warships are breaking down because sea is too hot
CNN ^
| June 9, 2016
| Bianca Britton
Posted on 06/09/2016 1:41:23 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Britain's £1bn ($1.4bn) warships are losing power in the Persian Gulf because they cannot cope with the warm waters, MPs have been told.
Six Type 45 destroyers have repeatedly experienced power outages because of the temperatures, leaving servicemen in complete darkness.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hot; royalnavy
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"Rule, Britannia! Rule the waves! Unless the water is too hot.
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:43:21 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Puppage
To: Snickering Hound
They don’t think big, do they?
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:47:17 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Leaning Right
I can fix the problem. Just carry a long hose and suck cooling water from a greater depth.
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:47:42 PM PDT
by
oldasrocks
(They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
To: Puppage
At first, I thought this would be some sort of silly global-warming story. But it's not. The problem is evidently due to poorly-designed turbines.
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:47:46 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Leaning Right
How come it is only the British Royal Navy warships?
Only the part of ocean the vessels are on is too hot?
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:48:32 PM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: Leaning Right
Well then, the headline is very wrong.
They shouldn’t blame ‘the sea is too hot’.
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:49:51 PM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: Snickering Hound
They need to install a thermostat in the upper radiator hose.
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:51:07 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: Snickering Hound
Adjust the thermostat? ;’}
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:52:45 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Leaning Right
guess the title writer was going for a global warming angle
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posted on
06/09/2016 1:56:19 PM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: Leaning Right
To: headstamp 2
BINGO! This problem was fixed 70 yr ago....
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posted on
06/09/2016 2:03:34 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Leaning Right
Britain's Royal Navy warships are breaking down because sea is too hot Never mind that Britain has slipped to a fourth rate power and no longer can afford maintenance and modernization.
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posted on
06/09/2016 2:04:49 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Memorial Day Salute to Baraq and Madam Benghazi - Two Words, One Finger!)
To: oldasrocks
“I can fix the problem. Just carry a long hose and suck cooling water from a greater depth.”
The gulf averages about 50 meters in depth.
To: The Sons of Liberty
If you get in hot water,
don’t call us!
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posted on
06/09/2016 2:14:39 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: TexasGator
I wonder what happens when the power goes. Do they
run an extension cord to another ship?
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posted on
06/09/2016 2:16:10 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: Sir Napsalot
It has also happened to a nuclear powered Russian icebreaker. The cooling system cannot handle warm weather, so the icebreaker is limited to service in northern polar regions and cannot be used in the southern Antarctic Ocean because it cannot transit the tropical zone.
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posted on
06/09/2016 2:24:58 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: Puppage
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