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Uibhist a Tuath
There was a tanker (T2) built during WW2 that was diesel elecric that was quite successful. I can see masive unmanned nuclear powered ships ploughing the oceans in future. Using satellite and drone technology.
Ross Lea
"I just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome, it started off badly but by the end I really liked it."
RIP Ken Dodd
tomo
It might start a trend in academia - I do rather wish she'd chosen to sue the vice-chancellor who likely could well afford to pay her off out of chump change - if the tales of academic "self-largess"with taxpayer funds are true.
tomo
Mar 11, 2018 at 10:22 PM | rhoda
The fact that submarines have been hybrid for over a century and the technology hasn't improved, and the fact that the submarine snorkel to improve submerged range was initially proposed in 1913* should have given the current USN engineers a hint that hybrid technology was a non-viable solution. My feeling is that it was little more than lip service and they hoped to quietly park it up a siding at some point.
I'm struggling with the concept of an energy saving hybrid surface vessel, just as the USN should. At what point is there surplus energy to charge the battery, anyone know?
*Another British invention wasted by a government agency, the Admiralty in this case.
Uibhist a Tuath
A few journos managed to [get] thru the lib-establishment border control over the press
Writing in his Sun Column Jeremy Clarkson today has 2 separate pops at the BBC's pushing of Climate Alarmist narratives
- "BBC say CC Affects women more" "rubbish my Mrs goes lovely brown in the sun, whilst I shrivel red like a lobster"
\\Well, I went snorkelling with a guide in the Indian Ocean this week and asked how badly the local reefs have been affected by climate change.
“Oh,” he said. “Things were pretty bad ten or 15 years ago but these things are cyclical.
They’re pretty much back to normal now.”
Weird how you never hear this sort of thing on the BBC.//
items at bottom of story
stewgreen
Sanity from Italy, well done Mr Salvini.
Mar 11, 2018 at 10:58 PM | Pcar
The EU is squealing about what it won't get from the UK.
Italy is squealing about paying for what it has already got from the EU.
If it was a business model for successful customer satisfaction surveys, the EU would fail. But the EU has always prided itself on its own sense of self importance, so won't change its contempt for those with constructive criticism.
golf charlie
DUP Leader Arlene Foster Says EU Brexit Threats Are ‘Insulting’ to the People of Northern Ireland
“To do so is an insult to the people of Northern Ireland who worked so hard to bring peace to our country,” she added.
She also rejected any suggestion that Ulster would remain locked into the EU economically...
If the EU insists on a ‘hard’ border regardless, Britain must leave it up to them to install it
First time I’ve seen Northern Irish leader Arlene Foster speak in the flesh. Impressed.
She was at the British Chambers of Commerce conference. The morning had dribbled by without much to note.
But when Mrs Foster arrived at the lectern just before lunch she made an obvious impact. The business audience stopped toying with their mobiles.
You could sense them thinking ‘hmmn, this one’s at least a grown-up, and tough’.
Straight talking is an admirable NI attribute, even if it offends Lefties. However, watch out for the "taking the Mick" humour.
Pcar
Not plug-in though.
Mar 11, 2018 at 10:22 PM | rhoda
Trying to coil even a 30 metre extension lead is not easy.
If the entire US Navy went nuclear electric hybrid, they could be on to something.
golf charlie
Brussels on the Brink: EU’s Hostile Front Against UK Faces Collapse as Italy Election Winners Back Brexit
“You made a free choice with Brexit and I very much hope that it will be possible to maintain completely open trade with the EU without any penalties,”
Sanity from Italy, well done Mr Salvini.
Pcar
Mar 12, 2018 at 10:04 AM | Ross Lea
Diesel engines running electric generators power many big cruise liners already.
Rather than two massive engines with propeller shafts etc, an engine room may consist of many smaller engine generator sets, with electricity powered propellers fitted in rotatable pods beneath the ship, to deal with steering, and manoeuvring at zero forward/reverse speed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth_thruster