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Originally Posted by camp guy
Sooooooooooooooooo, our President has given the State of Washington an electric tugboat for 50 big big ones, what's next, the M/V Mount Washington, with a mid-route charging station on Parker Island?
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That would be up to the owners of the Mount.
The diesel bill is going to hurt for quite a few years... so it may come to pass.
The great thing about losing the refining capacity, and the opening of sales of crude and LNG overseas that came about over just the last few years, is that it will keep costs high enough to push technology.
We could quickly see blue and green hydrogen become the fuel of choice... with a hybrid electric fuel cell connected to a high torque efficient electric motor.
The Mount is certainly large enough to handle the earliest versions of a package like that.