Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] New R&D impetus for battery and charging technology...

 

Richard:
 
Interesting article and one that I think will have good implications for those of use with electric boats. A lot of tech can trickle down from military R & D especially in things like lightweight batteries. Also a lot of surplus stuff like solar panels, controllers, motors etc...  may come on the market. Those of us who have EP systems also know how quiet they operate and that has got to appeal to the special forces ops so maybe we can expect higher efficiency motors and outboard technology too!
 
Capt. Mike
 

--- On Wed, 6/22/11, Richard <rwsandersii@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Richard <rwsandersii@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Electric Boats] New R&D impetus for battery and charging technology...
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 4:26 AM

 
Just found this article in a Sierra Magazine. I'm posting it only because it shows that there may be some serious changes in charging and battery technology now that there will be some major money flowing into it.
Overall, the article bothered me because usually I can pick up on who is slanting what and filter it out, the first time I found myself doing that is when I read Xenophon's 'the Persian Expedition', but that's a bit if a tangent. I'm not sure after reading this if the military folks are truly trying to attempt what I have heard described as "brownwashing" (trying to reject any green credentials to pander) or if the Club was trying to make it appear that way (I hope not). Anyway, slant one way or another is not mine, so here it is...
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201107/blood-and-oil.aspx
Richard

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