Posted on 05/10/2006 9:23:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
bump for the HI ferry.
Looks awesome. I wonder how much money the enviro-obstructionists are taking from the airline interests under the table?
Zero wastewater... and non-toxic bottom paint... in the middle of the ever-lovin' PACIFIC OCEAN...???
Please... is this the best the nutbags can do??
The usual suspects...
Hi-Tech "Whale Avoidance"...???
Oh, fertheluvva...
Apparently the ferry folk have not been too forthcoming when questioned about many aspects.
I have to wonder at the impact of 250 vehicles coming ashore at, say, Nawilili on Kauai where it's just a two lane road already pretty busy; then there'd be the buses for foot passengers perhaps ?
That's a long trip when the plane takes 40 minutes.
gaydar
The bit about "non-toxic bottom paint" would be kinda funny if it weren't so sad.
The truth is that pretty much *all* bottom paint is non-toxic anymore, which is pretty much why it also doesn't work very well any more.
The truly *toxic* bottom paints of years past were mostly copper-based, and they adhered solidly to the boat but were toxic to anything that attempted to grow on them. They tended *not* to even dissolve metals into the water. They were not "bioavailable".
The "new" and "environmentally friendly" bottom paints work not by toxicity, but by "sluffing" layer upon layer of paint as things try to grow on them, revealing new fresh layers of paint, sluffing the layers into the water. Non-toxic... yes... pristine... no. Still all kinds of interesting chemistry being permanently deposited on the sediments of marinas. Sediments are nice and "bioavailable"... we'll probably find out years from now that it was all a big mistake (like the enviros did with MTBE's in gas).
Thanks, environmentalists... way to go.
I would enjoy every minute of it.
Is there any place for people to stand in the fresh air and feel the breeze? It looks all enclosed. All the ferries I've been on had a lot of open areas to hang out in.
The worst plane trip I was ever on was from Oahu to Hilo on the Big Island. Severe drops of what felt like hundreds of feet, pounding sideways rain, heavy wind. It felt as though the wings were going to snap off. The flight attendent (who said he had flown a chopper in Viet Nam) had beads of sweat all over his face, people were bouncing around, flying up in their seats, praying and crying.
When the plane finally landed in Hilo, I was the last one off (I'm a bad flyer, I was savoring the fact that I was on the ground) and the flight attendent and pilot were talking, not realizing I was still on the plane. Flight A. said "I didn't think we were going to make it" and the pilot replied "I didn't either". They were disturbed I heard!
I just about kissed the ground and vowed to stay on the island until my natural death.
Didn't, though.
Too bad. I like the fresh air on the ocean. Why does everything have to be inside now, with windows that don't open?
Safety..
Well, since the safety at all costs rubber room folks are the same ones who fret about overpopulation, you'd think they wouldn't mind a couple of people falling into the ocean now and again.
What total crap.
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