How about wind-up? I think that would be the greenest of all.
Posted on 04/16/2021 7:33:18 PM PDT by dynachrome
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently called for solar panels to be used to help power "heavy battle tanks or fighter jets and naval ships," at an online seminar titled New Ideas for NATO 2030 — whose transcript is published on the NATO website.
During the seminar, Stoltenberg addressed the fact that the militaries of the world need to take action to curb their considerable CO2 emissions — which are so sizeable they exceed entire countries.
"NATO should do its part to look into how we can reduce emissions from military operations," Stoltenberg explained. "We know that heavy battle tanks or fighter jets and naval ships, they consume a lot of fossil fuel and emit greenhouse or co2, and therefore we do have to look into how we can reduce those emissions by alternative fuels, solar panels, other ways of running our missions."
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Transcript of the seminar where this idiocy was brought up:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_181208.htm
It would make keeping your cell phones charged easily.
Morons who make statements like this don’t understand energy density.
—this belongs in the Babylon Bee—(on April 1)
The future is Steampunk!
I saw a movie once called “The Pentagon Papers” about tank design and testing. I recommend it.
Giant rubber bands...
Okay. I finally figured out who’s really running things. It’s the guys from Impractical Jokers. We’re all being punk’d.
Look up the energy density of batteries vs. diesel. It is no contest (batteries fail miserably).
Better solution is for NATO to fine countries hosting active valcanos.
What will they do when it rains? Ask for a ceasefire until the weather clears?
Charge batteries for a day or two.
Drive two feet.
Charge for a day or two, drive two feet.
Repeat.
Actually it would work if you could get the other side to do the same thing.
Yeah! No more night maneuvers.
They have assumed some sort of magic battery.
How about wind-up? I think that would be the greenest of all.
How about Potato Power?
You Can Not Make This Shiite Up !
Mr Potatoe Head has it in the bag.
Breathtakingly stupid.
Let’s do some back of the napkin math: a Tesla model 3 will take 4 full days on a 110V outlet to fully charge the battery or 1500 watts x 96 hours. If you fit 500 watts of solar panels all over the body, you would take 3x as long, assuming 96 hours of perfect sunlight. The math isn’t perfect since the car would draw less power as it “absorbed” from 80-100% SoC and DC to DC is more efficient than AC to DC, but there’s also no such thing as a 96 hour sunny day and it’s difficult to maximize your solar panel angle to the sun 100% of the time on the body of a car.
In practical terms, it would take your Tesla 3 probably at least a month in ideal conditions to charge with body mounted solar panels. That’s a passenger car and not an extremely heavy armored vehicle. I suppose tanks don’t get driven every day like cars do, but there’s no way they could ever be quickly “refueled” in the field by anything other than a plug and that depends on what your idea of “quickly” means.
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