Recent content by fredsnotdead

I got the motor today and ran it by a friend's store to weigh it and it comes to 78 pounds, it's a late 80s electric motor but runs well. The batteries weighed right at 63 pounds(X 8 = 504 total) for a total weight of 582 pounds for the motor and batteries and I'm using longer cables that I...

Hey rasor and imp, do me and both of you a favor and put me on your ignore list. What's good for one but not others is OK to you two, but not me. And, I didn't vote for him, twice. I'm not pro-Obama, I'm anti-nutter.

So, wingnuts can burp up the latest hysteria from their favorite fake news source, but rebuttals are forbidden??? Got it. Typical.

You ever hear of the "Hawkeye Handout" ? It's where right wing lobbyists on behalf of other right wing leaning industries paying money(bribing) to right wing elected officials to channel government money back to the same and other right wingers. Most people call that SNAFU, and others call them...

How thorough did you browse the site? Here's alink that tells me enough along with the lack of sources and the parameters of the data collection and many other aspects to verify their claims. http://batteryuniversity.com/disclaimer/

Actually for cars the E technology doesn't even compare and the Tesla is a very poor over-glorified example of that. And, some of the major manuf.(GM or Buick) have taken some tiny and simple steps towards E that could and should have been done long ago whereas the engine shuts down and runs...

Way back when(1970's and 80's), all the trucks, school buses, and farm tractors ran on propane, with the truck and bus engines being dual fuel with gas also. I had a dually p/u with two tanks and propane too, and I liked the propnae for pulling a trailer and the three tanks combined gave me a...

Thanks for the heads up for that. I just wish they had it in a remote steer configuration, and maybe it could be switched with little work. I don't think that I would venture too far with just a 1 lb tank though.

Just to clarify, because maybe I read too much into your idea and assumed something other than what you are trying to accomplish. You mentioned building a trailer, do you mean a camper-"trailer" because sometimes they are called that, or are you building a boat trailer? I got the impression...

I like the "save billions" remark of ole Vlad. Oil is the one thing that makes markets, economics, and rational thought processes go through some type of demented time-warp where nothing applies, and basically anything goes. "Saves billions" is what will incentiveize them to go after more of the...

If I could offer some friendly advice mainly because I wish that somebody had given me some in the past to squash my bull-headedness would have saved me from some major headaches. Will that loader with the boat be too high for any bridges or overpasses or things of that nature? How about...

A simple question that I have, and just how are you going to flip a 20" boat over to load it, and then flip it upright when you unload it? Aren't you going to risk, or actually incur a lot of damage to the boat doing that? And, what are you going to use to flip it upside down, and back over...

I don't totally agree with that statement. Yes, there will be hysterical people, and some will act very irrationally, but a large percentage or majority will be too scared to do anything, good or bad. Water? No because in the most densely populated areas it's fed by gravity, until of course the...

The funny part about the "peak oil" and Hubbert curve is that there's a lot of oil wells drilled that are dry. So if it could be predicted to the point of no return, wouldn't they always find oil when drilling for it?

lol or Braille on the drive-thru ATM machine. My point was that if the world was ending and the phenomina was so great, and all that happened was that the internet and power is off?? I could definitely live with that outcome.