The Bollinger B1

[MCKDAVID]

........ One day they might find a cure for a lack of common sense and human stupidity.

hope you're patient...... I'm wouldn't be optimistic that it will be any time soon, or ever...

 

[Robbie260]

Cars are like women, all different. Not all men like all women. There are in fact some women who dont like men at all. THere are also men who only like men.

So why should we all like one type of car, or be forced to have one type of car for that matter. Thats almost like the old communist thing where everyone should do as they are told.

What ever happened to the utopia of freedom of thinking.

And again no one in the eco world has considered its not cars that do the bulk of the polluting but the large commercial forms of transport. Lorrys, ships, planes....are they being forced electric no, the motorist is a headline grabbing easy target.

All i want is to be off grid and fully disconnected from any of this....but never stop research and development. One day they might find a cure for a lack of common sense and human stupidity.

Actually not strictly speaking true the highest pollters are planes, then the private car, 3rd is lorrys, 4th is trains and last is ships. Now this is based upon figures of emissions per ton carried.

And don' say that there is no changes anywhere else. The shipping industry world wide is abandoning high sulphur fuel entirely world wide by 2020, there is going to be a huge shortage of diesel when this happens.

The ships have been using waste heat recovery systems for years to reduce emmisions, latest gen container ships like the Maersk triple E which I on right now have a really sophisticated steam/exhaust gas turbine set up which can provide most of the ships power needs when we are running reasonably fast, we even have shaft generators that are coupled to the main engines which means we don't need to run generators outside of manouvering into port. And if the exhaust gas/steam turbine is producing to much power these shaft generators turn in to motors to lighten the load on the ships main engines.

 

[dannyp]

meany solutions exist allready just there in the hads of the wrong people

 

[dannyp]

ship engines are probaly the most efficent there are i'd think, relativlt contnous output not overly constraned by size and weight, engine desingers dream

 

[Keith 66]

If you have seen a tiny lithium battery pack burn, i wonder what a fully charged electric car would go like if it caught fire?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I just wish they would fix that huge glaring problem with electric cars that you have to stand there for 12 hours with your finger on a button to recharge them.

They'll install road-side induction charging so the EVs charge as they go along. That would be the ideal answer, no?

Yeah, right. Look at the chaos when they dig up to lay gas, electricity, cable TV etc......

 

[Robbie260]

ship engines are probaly the most efficent there are i'd think, relativlt contnous output not overly constraned by size and weight, engine desingers dream

Yep 50% efficint without waste heat recovery on a slow speed 2 stroke marine diesel engine with direct drive. We are getting close to 70% these days with all the waste heat recovery systems we have.

It' Actually getting on for being as efficint as an entirey electrcal system as ever component in an elctical system from power production to final output there is on average an 8% power loss.

 

[addjunkie]

Yep 50% efficint without waste heat recovery on a slow speed 2 stroke marine diesel engine with direct drive. We are getting close to 70% these days with all the waste heat recovery systems we have.

It' Actually getting on for being as efficint as an entirey electrcal system as ever component in an elctical system from power production to final output there is on average an 8% power loss.

Waste heat recovery producing superhated steam, From a two stroke diesel to produce steam generated power on ships isnt really new tech, the Korean built junk ( they have improved somewhat as have their cars) I sailed on back in the 80s had that. Shaft generators are not new either. What I dont understand with the eco drive for clean efficient transportation is for example.

Why dont ships, cars, or even box vans / lorries have solar panels on their roofs.
Why did walker wing sails go bump with respect to shipping, they increased tons shipped per ton of fuel massively.

Or do the oil companies own these patents and control their development?


Anyway opinions are like noses we all have our own!

 

[R-D-R]

Land rover


Land rovers especially defender/series are really easy to convert with plenty of square/recangular holes to stuff more batteries into. A d3 you may struggle with as the are extremely limited on space outside of the body work, you are going to have to sacrifice a lot of interior space. Good luck though.

Yeh had 5x D3/4s over the years best cars we have had. Plan is to get my original one (and the best) back and take out the 3rd row seats to make space for most of the batteries and work form there. Lots to think about though, would only need 30- 40 miles range as a 3rd utility car for dog walking etc. Just love the idea of it.

 

[Robbie260]

Waste heat recovery producing superhated steam, From a two stroke diesel to produce steam generated power on ships isnt really new tech, the Korean built junk ( they have improved somewhat as have their cars) I sailed on back in the 80s had that. Shaft generators are not new either. What I dont understand with the eco drive for clean efficient transportation is for example.

Why dont ships, cars, or even box vans / lorries have solar panels on their roofs.
Why did walker wing sails go bump with respect to shipping, they increased tons shipped per ton of fuel massively.

Or do the oil companies own these patents and control their development?


Anyway opinions are like noses we all have our own!

I'm pretty sure I didn' say it was new just the way they were combining it all, and making it work together was. Sorry if I didn't word that one the best.

I' pretty sure if you sailed you would realise how solar panels on the roofs of containers would be pretty pointless only the ones on top of the stacks would get any light the other 97% would be covered either buy other containrs or hatch covers making a bit pointess. A tanker or bulker I agree stuff could quite easily be done, supply vessel or research might be more difficult considering operational constraints and the need for flexibiity. I mean you could put panels on the roofs of enclosed bridge wings no problem on any ship, on pilot shelters if fitted and maybe on the monkey island. But little thing such as that isn' going to make such a difference that it' worth the expense considering a Korean **** ship is built to may be last 10 years.

You will under stand how bad this is both the man b&w engines on hear are 7 cylinder between them in only 2 years they have had over 30 piston pulls. Brand new engines and it' the same on all of the rest of the class.

Alot research is going into produce significant amounts of power is being done though through the addition of rotor sail generators and kite systems.

 

[fixerupper]

I think it's a shame they chose a silly mock posh name like Bollinger ....it lacks credibility IMO...