Electric Narrow Boat article in pbo

[Caraway]

But they are not Zero Carbon. Which was my point. Sloppy terminology creating false perceptions.
I bet all those pink ER supporters think there is no carbon cost.

I don't care. I have never willing paid more money to be less polluting.

 

[Fanny Haddock]

New boats are out of my reach but has anyone started building sailing boats in which the battery systems double up as ballast? Most of all those systems are actually the same small batteries wired together. I guess, at a push, you might be able to make assemblies that bolted on to where the electrolytically inert keels were.

What's the difference in mass? I'd take a slight wind performance hit to have a couple of tonnes of lead acid batteries hung below the boat. On some older boats, you might actually be able to improve performance by making them tank tested-ily good shapes.

It strikes me that narrow boat would suit something like the recycled battery assemblies out of Lexus/Prius cars & the likes, as they are flat & probably denser than the usual bricks. For £1,300 to £1,800 they are becoming affordable. Increasingly available from scrap yards.

Some of the early electrical drag racers actually used bulk laptop batteries, all wired together. I think they ordered them, probably obsolete models, by the pallet from China.

I don't care. I have never willing[ly] paid more money to be less polluting.

Portland Oregon, the Californian & Australian forestries, & the shrunken ice caps thank you for doing so.

Bit sad seeing all those polar bears starve to death but I guess the seals are happy.

Oh, no, they're dying too ... "Baby Harp Seals Being Drowned, Crushed Amid Melting Ice", and "deadly virus spreads among marine mammals as Arctic ice melts".