Environmentalists are the worst people on earth.

[freebeard]

I was impressed that Alfadan chose outboard motors for their initial market.

ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/alfadan-654-hp-inline-four

I don't know how well they're doing. Their website hasn't updated in a year.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I was impressed that Alfadan chose outboard motors for their initial market.

Probably that would enable a higher profit margin even with a lower production volume. Boating supplies tend to be excessively priced. But anyway, the marine propulsion segment that I mentioned was in a larger scale such as engines for large ships or even some small and medium boats meant for professional uses. Having the Scuderi design also provided auxiliary power for accessories through a pneumatic-hybrid system like you often mentioned, and enabled trading some carbon credits due to a supposed decrease to the emissions, could be appealing to some operators, in contrast to an eventually more conservative nature of the recreational boat/yacth owners. Now that some ships are already using LNG as fuel, maybe an engine designed according to the Scuderi principles could have its fair share of the market...

[freebeard]

And you thought nuclear power was a hot potato before?

It turns out Ukraine is heavily into nuclear power. They had

• Zaporizhzhia --six reactors
• Rivne -- four reactors
• South Ukraine -- three reactors
• Khmelnytskyi -- two reactors

I say had because the Zaporizhzhia complex is being disconnected from Ukraine's grid and attached to Crimea's. But someone is bombarding the complex; must be the Russians, right?

Dr. John Campbell is concerned about Radiation risk to Europe

edit: In reference to the assertion about Crimea: duckduckgo.com/?q=zaporizhzhia+power+to+crimea&ia=web

[oil pan 4]

Ukraine still uses chernobyl.
Hopefully they added a containment dome to the one good reactor.

[Piotrsko]

Chernobyl is only a problem if you do goofy experiments with cooling, much like 3 mile island and fukishira. I believe they semi fixed the cooling issue

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Ukraine still uses chernobyl.
Hopefully they added a containment dome to the one good reactor.

As of four hours ago (at time of posting) they're still shelling Zaporizhzhia

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant hit with more shelling, UN warns 'grave hour' for nuclear security
YAHOO!News|4 hours ago
Threats against Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continue to mount as more shelling struck it Thursday as the UN Security Council met.

news.yahoo.com/ukraine-apos-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-121930095

[oil pan 4]

That's literally state sponsored nuclear terrorism, Putin is begging for NATO to do something.

[freebeard]

it's the UN Security Council.

[oil pan 4]

The problem is Europe likes boiling water reactors.
Boiling water reactors like to blow up.
If a reactor blows up and fallout makes its way in a nato member nation that could trigger article 5, where an attack on one is an attack on all.

[freebeard]

This behavior from a country that was supposdly going to join NATO. A spiteful, cornered animal?