Renting electric car

[tim]

Yan1ck,

Great post from one who has first hand knowledge.

 

[windybeach]

Please read the following articles , this might be our future if politics want to , Just Nevis could supply electricity for a couple of islands and the whole caribbean could benefit from this . Why El Hierro at the canaries can do what we can't do ?
We got so much more money then they have , forget oil ,it is an old business model .

http://www.nevisblog.com/geo-thermal-energy-drilling-commences-on-nevis.html

canaries : http://www.insula.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=33

 

[NYCFred]

There's no regenerative braking when going downhill?
Not v efficient....

 

[Perspicacity]

El Hierro is interesting. But all although the population size is similar to St Barth, the land mass is much larger (278 km2 vs 21 km2). They have much more space to play with than we have here.

Where would one even propose building a wind farm in St Barth? Let alone the excavation (as seen in the nytimes recently) needed for the basin as part of their hydroelectric system?

 

[Voosh]

Great photos. Thnx.

BTW. Are the new electric things a new version of the Moke? "Tires slipping and sliding on a rainy hill on SBH"

 

[Peter NJ]

I found out they can go 30klm's on a full charge.
Roughly 19 miles.

 

[Voosh]

Where we stay in MI's Upper Peninsula, that probably wouldn't get us back from a grocery run. And then, I'd probably get the perfunctory remarks from locals stopping by on the road (yes, they do stop and help) - "Hey little bud, ya want me to push you up to the farmhouse?"

Good idea. Not yet there. IMHO.

We still keep a full tank of gas.

 

[cassidain]

The power plant is no longer overburdened, there are 5 new generators producing plenty of extra power for the next few years while more modern motors are added... I guess you didn't read my article called Public Nuisance in the St Barth Fluffy... oh I mean St Barth Weekly this week...

Ellen, according to this week's journal: 1)the residents of Public where the augmented electrical generation takes place are up in arms about the whole business including noise, pollution, etc.; 2)much (most?) of the generation is still produced by 30 year old generators which are very inefficient, don't begin to meet current pollution standards, and require onerous detoxification of nasty by-products.
It also indicates they burn diesel.

But, hey, go ahead with your electric, door-less golf cart if it makes you feel like you're saving the planet or something.

 

[elgreaux]

hey, mon ami, I didn't say the electric plant was clean, fuel efficient, or pollution free.. but by putting in the 5 generators they are no longer over-burdened. sadly the extra power goes to air condition empty houses, heat empty swimming pools, etc...

 

[NYCFred]

if they got 5 new diesel generators, one would hope they'd b state of the art, pollution wise.

My kids just got an MB diesel SUV...emits water.

 

[cassidain]

hey, mon ami, I didn't say the electric plant was clean, fuel efficient, or pollution free.. but by putting in the 5 generators they are no longer over-burdened. sadly the extra power goes to air condition empty houses, heat empty swimming pools, etc...

Entendu, mon amie.