Twenty foot container batteries

Discussion in 'Electric Propulsion' started by alan craig, Sep 7, 2021.

  1. fallguy
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    Oh, you guys are so silly. I love Canada. My uncle and I went their every year since about 1999 until Covid. Then I could not take him up there and barely got a US trip booked and we froze in September and he died this April.

    Our health insurance is kind of a mess tied to employment. No job? You get a double whammy, no healthcare.

    So, your assumptions are all wrong; sorry. Next time your picking some of those glorious BC blackberries, please think of me and pop one in your mouth and say, too bad Dan can't get these in the ditches like me and has to pay 6 bux for 25 of em.

    I love Canada. I just couldn't afford those San Juan prices for homes.
     
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  2. fallguy
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    oh good heavens

    Noone is legislating all electric. Those left wing radicals are in a group same like someone saying solar is bad because it uses earthen mining.

    And to think you guys get salmon...so unfair.
     
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    But it probably doesn't involve boats. I'm a hundred miles from the nearest navigable water, and it takes a month to transit to the gulf of Mexico from there. I'm still trying to wrap my head around a developed nation that can and does barge stuff ten miles across town.
    Oh wait - Charleston is going to start next year - Port of Charleston Considers Container-on-Barge Service :: Palmetto Railways https://palmettorailways.com/aboutus/news/port-charleston-considers-container-barge-service

    (Never mind that they have been saying that since roughly the end of the civil war.):D

    Fallguy, interesting that you actually own a Tesla. I wasn't sure they were real until I saw my first one about a month ago. There were a couple of Honda evs in the county about ten years ago. They disappeared after about 6 months and none since then.
     
  4. DogCavalry
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    California is. Admittedly those guys are nuts. I'm not any kind of a denier. I'm the opposite. Sufficiently concerned that I work the math on everything, and greenwashing gets me madder than gas guzzlers. But anyway, sorry to get cranky. I'd hate you to feel that I was being rude or disrespectful. If I was, I apologize. And I also apologize to Alan, for hijacking his thread. The technical accomplishment is terrific. And maybe they will be charging up in France, where the carbon per capita rate is the lowest in the developed world.
     
  5. fallguy
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    California? They have a different problem. Try taking a breath in the middle of 7 lanes of traffic on your side of the 405. It stinks, probably causes cancers, too. I recall a traffic jam so bad there one time and a view so good, for sure 1000 cars in my sights, think 3 miles of view and six lanes or more. Getting a percentage of them to not stink is pretty reasoned really. Of course, if you are like me, I'm always a bit nervous about producing so much power from nuclear ta tas.

    Much easier to sell people on green and 'clean' versus foul smelling. I suppose that cargo container battery is similar.
     
  6. fallguy
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    My wife takes me Tesla shopping and I brought a tape measure. She went there wanting to buy the 3, but the trunk too small for her testing the aerodynamic qualities of dimpled spheres hobby. So, she got the S. The thing is scary fast. I find the ride to be very rough. It rides like an older Corvette. I suppose scary fast requires a certain type of suspension, but she bought the car because she is a techie and not green. I can't get her to turn off a lightbulb.

    This business of barging stuff around short distances happens here as well. Cargo is run up and down the mighty Mississippi here all the time. Gravel and sand for road work. Apparently, the pits are close to the river and the river is still an efficient way to move the stuff 10 or 100 miles versus however many dumps it'd take. And the river doesn't have road restrictions, but the barges do all park in the coldest months.

    That section of the river is too dirty to keep fish. Sad. Maybe some electric boats would be good, but electric boats are generally not high horsepower tugs capable of pushing 6 tubs of gravel.
     

  7. Blueknarr
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    Tugs can push three tubs of gravel and three tubs of batteries
     
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