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To: verum ago
"$133,000,000 for a ship that can run on batteries, but has no charger."

What could go wrong? And I bet some politicians and their big donors got a cut of that money.

2 posted on 07/11/2025 6:25:47 PM PDT by mass55th (โ€œCourage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.โ€ โ€• John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
$133,000,000 for a ship that can run on batteries, but has no charger. Heck, the charging system doesn't even have a valid design yet.

Not a problem at all. It is a twin paddle wheeler. One paddle wheel propels the ferry and the other is connected to a generator to charge the batteries. To achieve this those brillient engineers up by the weed factory have designed a vessel with zero coefficient of drag, a paddle wheel of 100 percent efficiency and the other wheel connected to the generator is also 100% efficient and of course the generators are of equal efficiency as are the batteries and wiring. Those boys up there by the weed farm and factory are engineers of ability in the extreme!

Would I lie to you? I swear on my name (Joe Isuzu) it is all true, all of it! Now you know why I flunked physics and thermodynamics, and the concept of efficiency of energy transfer. Actually, I made an A. Entropy rules all.

29 posted on 07/11/2025 8:11:57 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: mass55th

People are going to die on this thing. It’s bad enough you can’t put out a class D fire on a ferry deck. You get a class D fire in the engineering space with a battery this big and you will get something that will burn for over a week at the bottom of Puget Sound.

No effective fire arresting technology exists for self oxidizing fires.


40 posted on 07/11/2025 9:07:12 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: mass55th

What could go wrong? Batteries, water, ๐ŸŽ‡๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜ฑ


55 posted on 07/12/2025 7:31:05 AM PDT by Mastador1
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