Ugg. I was on a rock and roll cruise when the engine room caught fire. We were adrift for about a day and a half before they got one engine to work [no stabilizers] so we could inch our way to the nearest [unscheduled] port for repairs. That's when I fell in love with Key West! Good Times

Don't forget to give kudos to the 2nd half of the engine room...Jonesy.

In reply to this comment by Krupo:
*promote its chances up!
thanks buddy!
gotta say i was surprised this fell into pq hell.
sexy women being bad-asses=awesome.
i also happen to love the song....sexy.

>> ^bcglorf:


bcglorf, you have taken time to give my points the same answer that you did in the first place, which is your belief that better batteries are the answer to all the problems related to the coming shortages in oil. I absolutely think that better batteries will help, but I do not believe that they will be the unilateral solution to every facet of those problems.

The differences I have suggested between the engines in small duty personal vehicles and large scale engines are real. You are correct that the principle in all combustion engines is the same but the issue with powering larger engines is the scale of the energy required to move them.

I live in (arguably) one of the most important military ports on the western coast of the North Atlantic. I have seen the engine rooms of several destroyers and other warships and am familiar with with how big these engines really are. No matter how good the batteries get, they still require a power source. A nuclear powered ship is not the same as a battery powered ship. The only things that can move the battleships and aircraft carriers I've seen are diesel fuel and nuclear reactors. And putting a nuclear reactor in every ship more then 100 feet long just isn't practical.

I am also familiar with Tesla motors and think that they're doing great things. But even with their successes there remains the problem of scale. The increase of energy required to move lager and larger masses in not a constant.

I am not going to have time to give you a more fully developed argument right now. I can see by how quickly you responded to my last comment that you probably haven't looked at the references I posted for the the quotes I cited. Check them out. Some may be old news for you, but I expect you'll find them interesting anyway. I'll be back later to find out what you think.

They failed to to the ONE joke that would make sense.
The captain calls up Scotty at the engine room, and he's the only one with an really strong american accent.