Navy Spends $33 Million For Hybrid of the High Sea

coondoggie writes "Some might call it an enormous floating Prius, but others will call it a step in the right direction: A new hybrid electric engine for US Navy ships that promises to save up to 12,000 barrels of oil a year per ship. The folks who brought you the Predator unmanned flying aircraft, General Atomics, this week got $32.7 million to develop a proof-of-concept Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) system for a full-scale demonstration on board the Navy's DDG 51 Class destroyers. DDG 51 destroyers are powered by General Electric gas turbines capable of moving the ships along at over 30 knots or about 35 mph. The General Atomics system would meld into this system and let the ship use electric power for slow-speed maneuvers. The engines would provide more power as the ship needed to go faster."

Comments

Obamacare about to crush NYC

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/news/regionalnews/dem_health_rx_a_poion_pill_in_ny_179525.htm

My favorite line from the article:

"New York would become the third-most-hostile place for top earners to live under the proposed new surtaxes supported by House Democrats and championed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)."

LOL, your own Congressman goes up to Capitol Hill and stabs you in the back! Why on earth do you keep voting for that pathetic, ashy-faced nigger who slaps you with job-crushing taxes and then turns around and "forgets" to pay taxes on foreign rental properties that he owns? Do your research, you lazy slobs! It's no wonder you're getting taxed until your eyes are popping out, since you always seem to pull the lever for the same guy regardless of what a pile of shit he is.

Floating Prius...oh, I thought is said floating...

[Overzeetop]

Penis. That's what I get for skimming the summaries. I figured they'd found another one of these:

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Giant_ice_penis_-_is_climate_change_to_blame?&in_article_id=304450&in_page_id=2