Our goal is to get off Oil..As the EP system turned for the first time last Sunday..Launch is not till the end of May here on the Canadian East coast..
Our solar always kept the house batteries charged and we are adding more.
Of course we are rooting for the Canadian entry in the Velux even though Brad has it won now.
At the speeds they travel they were able to make enough power on this leg from hydro generators.
Brad has a fancy experimental one that optimizes the blade angles to keep the drag as low as possible.Not much info on it though as I suspect there are Patents.
Richard
From: Richard <rwsandersii@hotmail.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:14:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] BP oil spill, one year later... why are we into electric boats?
I think we could get there if the utilities weren't afraid of a decentralized system. If they were forward thinking, they could charge a little per "transaction" and actually make more.
The U.S. (from what I have read) developed photoelectric cells with tax dollars, but when the incentives disappeared, the technology was sold and we rank 4th behind Brazil in production and only because there is a Japanese owned plant here.
When I read or watch history from the depression era or WW2 it is really sad because we are losing or place in the world.
Every home and building could be a solar source, we could be investing in artificial leaves that hold promise as cheaper alternatives to existing photoelectrics with no toxic metals.
I don't know if anyone here is following the Velux Oceans 5 race (An American Brad Van Liew on Le Pingouin is in first), but the focus is on self-sufficient energy systems.
Richard
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@...> wrote:
>
> James and Richard, yeah they're probably all bad... This is really about energy self sufficiency. Wouldn't it be great if we could supply all our own energy? Being completely energy self sufficient by your own renewable means is the holy grail, I think. Know of any good examples of people doing this? Let's follow their lead!
>
> -Greg
>
> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Richard" <rwsandersii@> wrote:
> >
> > James,
> > It is hard to buy gas anywhere and be responsible. I won't buy from Exxon (they fought reasonable payouts to victims of their spill and fought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court).
> > Shell has supported the regime in Nigeria that killed environmental activists including Ben Saro Siwa.
> > Now BP.
> > Here's a great summary by the Sierra Club of the positives and negatives of many of the companies:
> > http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/pickyourpoison/
> > Richard
> >
> > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, James Sizemore <james@> wrote:
> > >
> > > BP is just incompetent, I would buy gas from them a hundred times before buying gas at an station that sells Exxon gas. Exxon funds nearly 100% of all anti global warming pesudo-science. I have not bought gas from Exxon in over a decade and would run out of gas first.
> > >
> > > On Apr 20, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Pitt Bolinate wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have an Electric Yacht 360ibi on the big boat and I bought a torqeedo and a whole bunch of solar panels at the show, to try to get of the gas completely. Except for my hookah dive compressor there isn't an ICE onboard.
> > > >
> > > > I see BP selling gas in my area for 50c a gallon less than everyone else? I cannot believe what the power of the dollar has?..would you shop at a local store if the parent company killed an ocean?
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPad
> > > >
> > > > On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:46, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> On the anniversary of the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which still hasn't been cleaned up, and in response to the apology by the CEO of Transocean, for having a good year last year (and being shamed into donating his obscene bonus to charity), I just think it might be time to ask ourselves why we're into electric boats? Is it because the technology makes the best sense, for certain applications, ...or... are we trying to take a bite out of BP (i.e. the oil industry)?
> > > >>
> > > >> Keep it charged!
> > > >> -Greg
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
The U.S. (from what I have read) developed photoelectric cells with tax dollars, but when the incentives disappeared, the technology was sold and we rank 4th behind Brazil in production and only because there is a Japanese owned plant here.
When I read or watch history from the depression era or WW2 it is really sad because we are losing or place in the world.
Every home and building could be a solar source, we could be investing in artificial leaves that hold promise as cheaper alternatives to existing photoelectrics with no toxic metals.
I don't know if anyone here is following the Velux Oceans 5 race (An American Brad Van Liew on Le Pingouin is in first), but the focus is on self-sufficient energy systems.
Richard
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@...> wrote:
>
> James and Richard, yeah they're probably all bad... This is really about energy self sufficiency. Wouldn't it be great if we could supply all our own energy? Being completely energy self sufficient by your own renewable means is the holy grail, I think. Know of any good examples of people doing this? Let's follow their lead!
>
> -Greg
>
> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Richard" <rwsandersii@> wrote:
> >
> > James,
> > It is hard to buy gas anywhere and be responsible. I won't buy from Exxon (they fought reasonable payouts to victims of their spill and fought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court).
> > Shell has supported the regime in Nigeria that killed environmental activists including Ben Saro Siwa.
> > Now BP.
> > Here's a great summary by the Sierra Club of the positives and negatives of many of the companies:
> > http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/pickyourpoison/
> > Richard
> >
> > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, James Sizemore <james@> wrote:
> > >
> > > BP is just incompetent, I would buy gas from them a hundred times before buying gas at an station that sells Exxon gas. Exxon funds nearly 100% of all anti global warming pesudo-science. I have not bought gas from Exxon in over a decade and would run out of gas first.
> > >
> > > On Apr 20, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Pitt Bolinate wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have an Electric Yacht 360ibi on the big boat and I bought a torqeedo and a whole bunch of solar panels at the show, to try to get of the gas completely. Except for my hookah dive compressor there isn't an ICE onboard.
> > > >
> > > > I see BP selling gas in my area for 50c a gallon less than everyone else? I cannot believe what the power of the dollar has?..would you shop at a local store if the parent company killed an ocean?
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPad
> > > >
> > > > On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:46, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> On the anniversary of the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which still hasn't been cleaned up, and in response to the apology by the CEO of Transocean, for having a good year last year (and being shamed into donating his obscene bonus to charity), I just think it might be time to ask ourselves why we're into electric boats? Is it because the technology makes the best sense, for certain applications, ...or... are we trying to take a bite out of BP (i.e. the oil industry)?
> > > >>
> > > >> Keep it charged!
> > > >> -Greg
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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