Coal demand for electricity during polar vortex

 
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Post by oros35 » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 8:55 am

CoalJockey wrote:
Sun. Feb. 24, 2019 1:47 pm
I was impressed when I stopped to get a sandwich at Breezewood and there was a Tesla sitting at the charging station with the cord hooked up.
I was really happy to find those charging stations!!! Every normal spot in the parking lot was filled when I swung in there with my diesel truck and 33' trailer. Just parallel parked the truck and trailer in all them empty Tesla spots! :twisted: Life was great!

There was one tesla parked there, I blocked him in. He asked how long I was going to be. Just long enough for a sammich and a stop at the porcelain throne. He was OK with that. I was in and out long before he was charged.
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Post by BigBarney » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 3:14 pm

Why do people want to live in the stone (fossil) age when

you be in the future .

Really how often do you go over 200 miles in a day ???

Charge at night for $0.05 KW and are ready every morning to

go on with your day . No big deal ....

This $0.05 KW enables a tractor trailer to go about 1 mile for

a dime... Show me a diesel that @80,000# can do that ...

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Post by BigBarney » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 3:21 pm

I also had an Elec Trac tractor and it would out pull

any small <30hp around like a rag doll.

Fossil fuel engines have no torque so have to be revved to

high rpm to have any torque at all ...

I still have part of it and am tempted to get a couple of LI Ion

batteries and see what it could do now that was unavailable in

1972 .

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Post by McGiever » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 3:29 pm

One EV stops to charge and whoa, they are all NFG.

Then, again, all the horsemen said motor cars were NFG, once upon a time, too...hermmm :annoyed:

 
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Post by BigBarney » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 3:45 pm

Uncle Dave Macon..

"Been a-wagoning for over twenty years, and living on the farm
I'll bet a hundred dollars to a half a ginger cake, I'll be here when the trucks is gone"

Maybe he was well ahead of his time but that Gas & Diesel trucks will be

gone is coming to fruition ...

http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Uncle_Dave_Macon:Fro ... _To_Heaven



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Post by CoalJockey » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 5:48 pm

Barney I do not need you to tell me about transportation innovation, you really have no clue anything about me.

My great grandfather had the first truck that ever came into Bedford County. Then the first tandem, then the first tri-axle, then the first diesel. First truck that ever hauled for a local stone crushing firm that is now one of the largest aggregate producers and road building contractors in the nation. My family has always had equipment on the road that others only dreamed about, and we still have the nicest looking coal haulers on the road, don’t care what anyone says. I knew what a brake slack adjuster was before I could write my own name, I don’t need your help with anything that involves nuts and bolts.

Get me something practical and I’m sure it will be considered at some point...this outfit has never been afraid to try something new. The whole key phrase there was “something practical”, for which you will totally disregard anyhow.

There was more transportation history made right here in this family than you will ever care to know about, and more transportation history lost here than you will ever see.

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