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 Posted Thursday, 2 April 2009 3:52 PM |
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Hi carmeldes,
This is a commendable suggestion, I have travelled on battery powered boats in Europe, they are a viable alternative to an ICE and would be totally suitable on the Brisbane river.
Everything should be done to encourage the use of EVs in general, or even better - telecommuting.
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| Posted Friday, 27 March 2009 5:19 PM |
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carmeldes (26/03/2009)
There is a lot of fabulous discussion on what we can do as households and industry to reduce carbon emissions, but has anyone stopped to think about petrol usage for leisure on the river? Did you know that a study commissioned by our federal govt in 2007 Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Performance of Small Engines Marine Outboards and Personal Watercraft states that "one hour of operation of a boat, with a relatively clean engine, produces the same pollution as about fifty cars, operated at a similar speed." I think if people and councils realised this, there would be more care taken.There are a number of new and very efficient electric outboards now on the market in Australia. These can even be used with solar panels. Let's clean up the petrol fumes and the noise on our river and be more environmentally responsible with our boating. In one trip a jet airliner produces the emissions of something like a whole city full of cars. In a year an extinct volcano produces billions of tonnes of greenhouse and ozone-depleting emissions a year. Environmentalists have no sense of scale. The boats are small and the river is large. There are far fewer boats on the river than cars, trucks, trains and buses on the land. Those electric boat motors run on batteries, which are charged using fossil fuels. If cars can't run on solar, and a boat requires fifty times the power of a car, no way can a boat be powered by solar panels. Batteries are also very expensive, requiring many hours of carbon-producing and resource-consuming production to obtain the wages to pay for them. The biggest impact on the environment is probably from all the studies the government is doing or funding into the environmental impact of every imaginable human activity and many other related issues. But I don't expect the government to cut down on those.
"Government is not eloquence, is not reason. It is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington, first president of the United States.
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| Posted Thursday, 26 March 2009 11:51 PM |
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| There is a lot of fabulous discussion on what we can do as households and industry to reduce carbon emissions, but has anyone stopped to think about petrol usage for leisure on the river? Did you know that a study commissioned by our federal govt in 2007 Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Performance of Small Engines Marine Outboards and Personal Watercraft states that "one hour of operation of a boat, with a relatively clean engine, produces the same pollution as about fifty cars, operated at a similar speed." I think if people and councils realised this, there would be more care taken.There are a number of new and very efficient electric outboards now on the market in Australia. These can even be used with solar panels. Let's clean up the petrol fumes and the noise on our river and be more environmentally responsible with our boating.
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