Stilllearning

It may be worth checking that the cable to the gearbox is adjusted so that the gears engage fully before the throttle cable increases the revs.

What have water cooled engines ever done for us? Stopped us going deaf. What?? Free hot water.

When I peruse these listings, looking at working boats and dreaming, if the Lister doesn’t have a W in the model number, I move on. Air cooled Listers really are noisy.

Indeed that is clearly the case. Equally, in an all electrical scenario, any boat popping out for a short trip will need to recharge on return. My thoughts on this subject are all part of my concern about electricity usage now, and in the future. There are, every year, more and more items that exist in a stand by mode, thus increasing the demand for generating capacity. This is something that was discussed back in the early 90s, when I worked for UK2000, and it worried us all back then. It is far more critical now.

I wonder what size of supply will be needed to service all the electric boats in the future in, for example, Mercia Marina? Equally, think of any busy and popular mooring, Fradley for example, and try to estimate the costs involved there.

Or when the wind doesn’t blow? A game my wife and I play when driving around is to see how many turbines are not turning on a windy day, it’s a surprisingly large number. A local group near here got hold of a contract that a farmer had for turbines on his land, and two things stood out: firstly, the turbine company expressly forbade the farmer to let anyone see the contract, and secondly, at the end of the turbine’s useful life, cost of removal was down to the landowner.

Very interesting. What is the projected demand for electricity in the years to come?

I’m sure you are aware of the limitations of the sources you mention.

Quite. And where is all the spare electric generating capacity, may one ask?