On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:37:54PM -0000, Eric wrote:
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> An easy question in "how much gas do you usually use in a single day on the water?" Just thinking about the batteries, if you use golf cart style batteries, the usable equivelent of a 1 gallon gas tank will weigh about 800 pounds and cost about $2000. Upgrading to AGM will drop the weight to about 750 pounds and cost about $4000. Going high tech, you could buy Lithium cells that only weigh 350 pounds and cost about $6200. All of that for a "gas tank" that drive your boat as far as 1 gallon of gas today.
That's an excellent, concise overview. Maybe somebody should write up an
FAQ for this group, with this kind of info? It's the traditional way of
introducing newbies to the default assumptions behind a given discussion
group.
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Ben Okopnik
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