Mark, I'm with you, it should die soon. As the originator of the post I was only looking at the "what ifs". If we had not had the use of the cheap fuel that now claims our lives and the best alternative was electric, where would we be?? I really didn't mean for it to take on a life of it's own.... We have come a long ways on fossil fuel, but if we are going to continue we need to take a strong look at other forms of energy to power our lives, solar, wind and other renewable sources. It's been interesting reading at times, we know were we stand on this subject, as individuals and as a group.... Dave K
From: acsarfkram <acsarfkram@yahoo.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 12:31:49 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Re: re ICE versus Electric
I sure hope this thread dies soon.
To those that see EP as impractical for whatever reason (cost,range...) I do not see anything changing in a big way for the next year. There will likely be some battery improvements maybe even a "breakthrough", but I'm guessing they will not be inexpensive.
For the past three plus years EP has and is working sooo much better in every way than ICE did on my sailboat. If/when I get another boat I'll be looking for a sailboat with a dead or dieing engine and ripping it out to replace with EP just like I did with my current boat and the sailboat before that. If the perfect boat has a brand new diesel there will be a diesel for sale :-).
For me there is no comparison between ICE and EP, it's like two different activities.
So to those that have made up their minds that EP is impractical on a sailboat that's fine but what are you doing here?
Mark
Santa Cruz
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