). Several years back there was one company trying to use flywheel energy storage in a car. Great idea, no pesky battery acid, and freakin spectacular when the bearings fail and the fragments get past the containment.
Yep, we would probably have about eight 6 volt batteries ($800), but they last a number of years if cared for and all of that time some generating plant wouldn't have to be burning something to supply us with elect.RobertB wrote:Batteries are so expensive, finicky, and inefficient. Not to mention that the good ones consume a bunch of rare materials sourced in friendly places like China.
I would love to see someone install a flywheel storage system (someone else first
. Excess electrical output would go into heating water that would primarily be heated by solar directly and also into resistance heat if there was further excess.
Yep, we would probably have about eight 6 volt batteries ($800), but they last a number of years if cared for and all of that time some generating plant wouldn't have to be burning something to supply us with elect.Sumner wrote:RobertB wrote:Batteries are so expensive, finicky, and inefficient. Not to mention that the good ones consume a bunch of rare materials sourced in friendly places like China.
I would love to see someone install a flywheel storage system (someone else first
. Excess electrical output would go into heating water that would primarily be heated by solar directly and also into resistance heat if there was further excess. Yep, we would probably have about eight 6 volt batteries ($800), but they last a number of years if cared for and all of that time some generating plant wouldn't have to be burning something to supply us with elect.Sumner wrote:RobertB wrote:Batteries are so expensive, finicky, and inefficient. Not to mention that the good ones consume a bunch of rare materials sourced in friendly places like China.
I would love to see someone install a flywheel storage system (someone else first
. Excess electrical output would go into heating water that would primarily be heated by solar directly and also into resistance heat if there was further excess. Thanks, I've talked to them on the phone before and might use them. There is also a battery store near the boat that has them for about the same price and also a guy comes to the boatyard to service their golf carts and he is about the same price and will help me get the old batteries (four 6 volt) out of the boat and down on the ground and the new ones in which would really help. I'll probably go with him if he is the same price when we return. The batteries in the Endeavour are junk now except for the start battery.DaveB wrote:....Over in North Fort Myers there is a place called Affordable Golf Cart Batteries.
There top of the line Trojans T105 cost $90.50 including fed costs with you bringing old batteries in. If you don't have Golf Cart type batteries add $7 to each battery....
I like the added storage in the cockpit and also the access to the area behind the engine and under the helm via that storage. We also like the forward cabin and larger v-berth. I can see where for some the A would have advantages, but if we didn't have a boat now and I knew what we do now we would look for another B.