Yeah, you can't smoke in an outdoor cafe here in the US but you can pour mercury-laden smoke into the atmosphere to your heart's content!
-Mike Hakan Falk wrote: >Zeke, > >Galapagos: >Nothing, if they have not done it the last 8 month. I did not see >any solar, not even on the houses. The tour boats are not small, >generally they take 100 or more passengers, with spacious >dining, entertainment and kitchen areas. I was very surprised >by the contradictions between the vocal care for environment >and the dirty tourist ships. There are many of them, but the >Americans try to keep their mind in rest, by not allowing >smoking. LOL > >Hakan > >At 01:06 04/05/2006, you wrote: > > >>Never heard of biscuit tin motors, but I have heard of lynch motors -- >>used for all kinds of little electric vehicals. I've also heard a bit >>about eletric boats and ferries -- they used to have one for president >>Roosevelt (Teddy) I think, for the official launch (equivalent to his >>Marine 1 helicopter now I guess....). As he said, weight is not an >>issue, and nowadays, you can easily (technically, if you can afford >>it) put a kW or so of PV as a shade canopy on the barge and run it >>around all day, pollution free. I know that the galapagos islands >>were wanting to convert alot of their little tour boats, because they >>just tool around all day belching diesel (which also kills alot of the >>very wildlife the tourists are there to see, in the frequent fuel >>spills). Not sure how far along they've gotten on this plan. >> >>On 5/3/06, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi all >>> >>>A nice person wrote to me from the UK and told me about this, among >>>other things - anyone know about 'biscuit tin motors'? >>> >>> >>> >>>>You may be interested to know that I own a 1936 canal barge which I >>>>have had converted so that the propulsion system is an electric >>>>lynch motor. I dare say you already know about lynch motors but just >>>>in case you don't they are also known as 'biscuit tin motors' >>>>because they are so tiny that they will actually fit inside one. >>>> >>>>The lynch motor happily pushes along my boat which is 72 feet long >>>>and weighs in at over 20 tons !!!! >>>>Fortunately on a boat , batteries are a positive attribute because >>>>they become ballast to keep the hull down in the water. I usually >>>>have 1,650 amp hours of them onboard. The weak link is the fact that >>>>my budget didn't stretch to the kilowatt of photovoltaics needed to >>>>do the propulsion system justice so I don't travel very far at >>>>present : >( >>>> >>>>Hugh, who fitted the lynch motor has a website www.solarboat.co.uk >>>>which you may find interesting. >>>> >>>> >>>Also: >>> >>>http://www.lemcoltd.com/ >>>L.M.C. Manufacturers of Permanent Magnet DC Motors >>>Lynch Motor Company >>> >>>Best >>> >>>Keith >>> >>> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
