All electric tug.....zero emissions
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AndieMac
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Resembles a childhood fantasy boat, it is appealing!
snowbird30ds
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The whole zero emisions thing is crap, what do they think comes from the power station, it's just in someone elses backyard.
Mr Googler
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Just row it.....problem solved
It looks like someone’s put a lot of effort in making that. It would make a great ice cream selling boat or something similar I reckon.....maybe not in the SOF though
Assassin
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Zero emissions? really, someone had to produce the materials for the boat and someone had to build it so by the very nature of it there has to be emissions produced in simply building the boat, then of course there is the mining of materials of the motors and batteries, batteries produce gas during charging and discharging.
Mr Googler
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Yeah....it was meant to be a little light hearted.
Nothing is truely zero emissions obviously.
Nothing is truely zero emissions obviously.
Grubble
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Thanks for the oil company propaganda.
In the UK around 30% of the electricity we use comes from renewable sources - which is about a 10% increase over the previous year.
I like the idea of having solar panels on my roof to recharge my electric car, rather than having to go to the petrol station to buy petrol or diesel. You might like paying for gold plated Lambos, but I don't.
Mr Googler
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The mahoosive windfarm in the Irish Sea came online recently. Gales coming this week so it will be pumping out some power.
Took a lot of diesel boats to build it though
Took a lot of diesel boats to build it though
wofforduk
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Absolutely agree. This whole ‘burning fossil fuels to charge electric cars’ theory is becoming boring. A good app is carbongrid, shows that renerable energy is on the rise. Think we had a couple days this year where we ran solely on wind and solar, with more to come. Also what is often mistaken is that is takes a HUGE amount of electricity to make petrol and diesel, one refinery say they use more than Coventry and leister combined! Don’t call me a tree hugger though, I run twin AD41’s and a 5.7l v8 corvette.. not sure which is less efficient but it’s close!
MrB
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Going back the the little tug, I agree with Farsco, looks like loads of fun.
Assassin
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Interesting quote, but emissions testing revealed that you can run your Corvette for 8.5 years doing an average 20,000 miles per annum and it still produces less emissions than producing the battery for a Nissan leaf and that's a small battery currently, and then there is the rest of the car to produce, and of course there is the recycling of the battery in which only three elements are recycled so where does the rest of it go? so don't feel bad running a Vette.
While in the Middle East a few years ago I had the Dodge Ram 8.0 V10 and it went like shit off a shovel and I nearly hit double figures MPG on one occasion, the only problem was it regularly threw engine drive belts.
Mr Googler
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An 8.0 v10 in that tug would be fun. I think they call it a “sleeper” in the US car world
sailorman
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Also need Nuke power to provide charging
Grubble
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Actual research (rather than oil company propaganda) shows that the electric vehicle, over its lifetime, produces far less C02 than the equivalent petrol car. Of course if you assume all the electricity comes from coal powered power stations, that figure will be different, but as already pointed out in this thread, a third of the UK's electricity comes from renewables.
“Manufacturing a midsized EV with an 84-mile range results in about 15% more emissions than manufacturing an equivalent gasoline vehicle. For larger, longer-range EVs that travel more than 250 miles per charge, the manufacturing emissions can be as much as 68% higher.”
“These differences change as soon as the cars are driven. EVs are powered by electricity, which is generally a cleaner energy source than gasoline. Battery electric cars make up for their higher manufacturing emissions within eighteen months of driving — shorter range models can offset the extra emissions within 6 months — and continue to outperform gasoline cars until the end of their lives.”