Got this in an email, which is a report/advertisement for this company. I excerpted it as it is LONG, but thought it relevant because of that California diving boat fire a while back as well as a caution on the "thermal runaway" effect, as shipping goes all in on this Green mania.
1 posted on
10/27/2019 12:13:02 PM PDT by
Oatka
To: Oatka
electricity, salt water... what could go wrong?
2 posted on
10/27/2019 12:14:04 PM PDT by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: Oatka
There have been problems with all sorts of ship engines.
Yes, there will be problems here also. Who knew?
Over time the problems will become fewer and fewer.
Any new tech has growing pains.
4 posted on
10/27/2019 12:16:46 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent.)
To: Oatka
I read an article about that fire, and later I was looking for a cruise to go on. One of them was on a ‘green’ ship, which means it had batteries...passed up that opportunity.
And I’m still having trouble understanding just how large battery banks are supposed to help a cruise ship save energy. I can understand cars, trucks, and other vehicle that are in stop-and-go traffic and thus can use regenerative braking to recover some of the energy associated with stopping, and yes, eventually even cruise ships stop and maybe use reverse thrust once in a while (such as in port) ...but how, exactly, would they regenerate energy and if they did, the amount would be tiny, relative to traveling hundreds of miles through ocean?
It seems to me to be more of a gimmick than even replacing buses with trains.
6 posted on
10/27/2019 12:21:37 PM PDT by
BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't te Don'tll anyone.)
To: Oatka
Smug is explosive. Who knew?
7 posted on
10/27/2019 12:23:01 PM PDT by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Oatka
With a ‘hybrid’ car there is value in capturing energy during braking and using it for future propulsion. The worse at driving a person is the more helpful such technology is (e.g. people who don’t anticipate that they will have to stop at the red light ahead and slam on the brakes at the last minute rather than coast and slow down.)
What value is this on a ship which would stop using its drag or with engines in reverse?
To: Oatka
Hybrid ship. Is that like hermaphrodite brig?
10 posted on
10/27/2019 12:31:03 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: Oatka; Larry Lucido; SaveFerris
On October 11, 2019, an explosion rocked passenger ferry Ytterøyningen while dockside at Sydnes, Norway. Amazing Tales Of The Harbor.
11 posted on
10/27/2019 12:33:22 PM PDT by
Gamecock
(Time is short Eternity is long It is reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity)
To: Oatka
In other news, importing large numbers of Islamic fascists into your country causes significant thermal runway.
14 posted on
10/27/2019 12:38:38 PM PDT by
Track9
To: Oatka
Can’t they just use Big Sails instead??
16 posted on
10/27/2019 12:44:34 PM PDT by
eyeamok
To: Oatka
17 posted on
10/27/2019 12:46:30 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: Oatka
"Ytterøyningen"?
27 posted on
10/27/2019 1:06:14 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: Oatka
Queue the “Simpsons” character Nelson : “Ha, Ha !
32 posted on
10/27/2019 1:24:45 PM PDT by
A strike
(Import third world become third world)
To: Oatka
Got this in an email
To: Oatka
Use Communist Chinese lithium-ion battery technology, fires and explosions happen. A lot.
39 posted on
10/27/2019 2:33:32 PM PDT by
Starcitizen
(American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
To: wattojawa
Ping
47 posted on
10/27/2019 4:54:19 PM PDT by
lightman
(Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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