Do all of you people who keep proposing this stop and wonder why almost nobody in the industry ever takes this concept seriously? And the few that did went out of business or stopped doing so?
You mean, the electric shipping industry? I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to elaborate?
ALL solar systems are very much affected by particulate matter in the air
Are you really pointing out the fact that solar panels are adversely affected by the very air borne particulate matter that they help to eliminate? Really?
It's a bulker, don't look at that picture at the top of the article. (For one thing, the ship is only 200-something feet long, isn't a standard cointainer 53'?)
I'm sure the batteries are below her belt, (indirectly) cooled by the water. And why would you need to change battery capacity quickly? She'll be doing the same route her entire life. They can probably change out a faulty group of cells very quickly and easily any time she's in port, and probably even while she's under way.
Ah, you are right. Fooled by a damned stock photo:(
You'll have to apply my facetious idea to a future electric container ship. Then it will make more sense. In that scenario, you might change battery capacity to suit the route to next be embarked on. More importantly, you might change battery charge quickly rather then charging the batteries in place; you would charge the batteries on shore using the cheapest power source available, when available, and install them on the next ship to arrive.
Not at all silly. Diesel-Electric is a time-tested and reliable technology that offers huge increases in fuel efficiency.
Time-tested does not change what it is. They were diesel-electric when the first prototype roared to life, just like this ship was electric when it whirred nearly silently to life:p
And I don't think the main advantage of diesel-electric is (energy) efficiency. A direct-drive diesel arrangement should be more efficient. The advantage is that you don't need a ridiculous and heavy system of clutches and several-dozen-speed transmissions to make it possible to run at different speeds.
It's a container ship. Now, if only someone could think of a way to install and uninstall battery capacity quickly and easily, and what to do with those batteries while they're sitting there in the sun not being used...
there are lots of great reasons to use coal as a load for the first test of a rechargeable ship. (I refuse to call it an electric ship, there have been diesel-electric propulsion systems on ships, as railway locomotives, for decades.)
You'll call a diesel-electric ship what it is, but not an electric ship? That seems silly. And they're both rechargeable, just with different forms of energy.
Look, China, India, the UK, the EU, Canada, Japan, and the Northeastern and Western US are all AHEAD of where we needed to be on renewables to avoid this. We met and exceeded the 2025 renewables goals in 2016.
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Starting in 2018 more than 80 percent of all cars and trucks sold worldwide will be electric only or plug-in electric hybrids with a biodiesel option.
This sounds completely made up. Any links to support it?
Of course it is, but if the carbon that is released during combustion was sourced from the atmosphere or ocean in recent times, them it is a so call Carbon Neutral cycle.
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But then how do you keep your rape victims from reporting you?
Voter ID is not a right!
The meat needs to eat those plants :(
Slashdot editors can't link their way out of a wet paper bag.
This article seems to imply that there are people who are surprised by this. People actually didn't see this coming years ago?
And this explains why humans have never, and can never, go anywhere near the north and south poles.
Do all of you people who keep proposing this stop and wonder why almost nobody in the industry ever takes this concept seriously? And the few that did went out of business or stopped doing so?
You mean, the electric shipping industry? I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to elaborate?
ALL solar systems are very much affected by particulate matter in the air
Are you really pointing out the fact that solar panels are adversely affected by the very air borne particulate matter that they help to eliminate? Really?
It's a bulker, don't look at that picture at the top of the article. (For one thing, the ship is only 200-something feet long, isn't a standard cointainer 53'?)
I'm sure the batteries are below her belt, (indirectly) cooled by the water. And why would you need to change battery capacity quickly? She'll be doing the same route her entire life. They can probably change out a faulty group of cells very quickly and easily any time she's in port, and probably even while she's under way.
Ah, you are right. Fooled by a damned stock photo :(
You'll have to apply my facetious idea to a future electric container ship. Then it will make more sense. In that scenario, you might change battery capacity to suit the route to next be embarked on. More importantly, you might change battery charge quickly rather then charging the batteries in place; you would charge the batteries on shore using the cheapest power source available, when available, and install them on the next ship to arrive.
Not at all silly. Diesel-Electric is a time-tested and reliable technology that offers huge increases in fuel efficiency.
Time-tested does not change what it is. They were diesel-electric when the first prototype roared to life, just like this ship was electric when it whirred nearly silently to life :p
And I don't think the main advantage of diesel-electric is (energy) efficiency. A direct-drive diesel arrangement should be more efficient. The advantage is that you don't need a ridiculous and heavy system of clutches and several-dozen-speed transmissions to make it possible to run at different speeds.
There's a big splash and then it sinks.
Adding more battery packs also leaves less space to carry cargo, though.
Quick, list the modes of transportation which do not suffer from this exact same problem.
It's a container ship. Now, if only someone could think of a way to install and uninstall battery capacity quickly and easily, and what to do with those batteries while they're sitting there in the sun not being used...
there are lots of great reasons to use coal as a load for the first test of a rechargeable ship. (I refuse to call it an electric ship, there have been diesel-electric propulsion systems on ships, as railway locomotives, for decades.)
You'll call a diesel-electric ship what it is, but not an electric ship? That seems silly. And they're both rechargeable, just with different forms of energy.
Your brain knew the headphones were off, and so it made up a muffling effect, causing you to no longer hear the thud.
The visual kind of creeped me out as I wrapped my noodle around what I was watching, but I didn't hear anything.
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I found duplication in your post.
That "someone else" has a good paying job cleaning up gory messes. Why would you wish unemployment on someone you've never even met?
No, fuck Daylight standard time.
Soap causes autism. Plain old autism.
Do your own searches, lame ones.
OK, I did. Shockingly, you're completely full of shit.
Look, China, India, the UK, the EU, Canada, Japan, and the Northeastern and Western US are all AHEAD of where we needed to be on renewables to avoid this. We met and exceeded the 2025 renewables goals in 2016.
...
Starting in 2018 more than 80 percent of all cars and trucks sold worldwide will be electric only or plug-in electric hybrids with a biodiesel option.
This sounds completely made up. Any links to support it?
Of course it is, but if the carbon that is released during combustion was sourced from the atmosphere or ocean in recent times, them it is a so call Carbon Neutral cycle.
You exhale carbon dioxide. Oh noes!
that if you use your brain in a narrow way for a large portion of your life, that your brain will become less good at the things you don't use it for?
Here comes my shocked face again.
:(