I’d never buy an electric car. 3 hrs to charge after a 300 mike trip? Wtf. Also, I wonder where tree huggers think the electricity to charge it comes from. All bs, smoke and mirrors.
[QUOTE=Xmsccapt(ret);128003]I’d never buy an electric car. 3 hrs to charge after a 300 mike trip? Wtf. Also, I wonder where tree huggers think the electricity to charge it comes from. All bs, smoke and mirrors.[/QUOTE]
I hope I live long enough to see cost effective and environmentally friendly battery technology.
On another note, before I retired, My captain, CM and I were putting together an order for grid-tied solar systems with U.S. made panels. 8KW systems for their houses under construction and a 5KW for my house and 2.5KW for my camp house. The vendor shucked and jived for 4 months and we canceled. A few months later we learned of Solyndra.
I’m guessing you’re smoking lubeoil, and looking in the rear view Mirror, cap…
Got a call from a neighbor a couple days ago, a high dollar accountant type, thrilled because his new Nissan Leaf charged from solar panels on his roof…
Every now and then, someone calls the Chinese research vessel Xue Long an icebreaker. I’ve even seen someone referring to it as the largest icebreaker in the world, probably because in comparison to “true” icebreakers it is a relatively large vessel. However, people seem to forget that under the modern research vessel disguise it’s an 80s-era multipurpose cargo ship of Soviet design that has only limited icebreaking capability. I would never take a ship with a low-speed diesel engine into serious ice conditions - it’s diesel-electric or nothing.
However, if the new Chinese polar research vessel had been completed by now, it could have easily reached the icebound ship by going stern-first.