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Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Where's Arild
From: Arild Jensen (elnav@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 12:30:38 EST
At 11:34 PM 01/12/2002 +1100, Robert Bryett wrote:>
>Yow, what a loss! And people in the engine business wonder why their
>wonderful world of electronically managed diesels doesn't inspire universal
>enthusiasm. Wasn't one of the advantages of diesels supposed to be that they
>didn't need electrics to run?
REPLY
Yes!
And then the environmentalists got into the act.
While the intended goal is laudable, I sometimes woinder if the
method of going about it is really sound thinking.
Private sources tells me the new 47 foot Coast Guard cutters also are
experiencing some sort of trouble with the new digital diesels. However,
this will not come into the public view unless some disaster happens and
the emergency response vessel is disabled by this sort of electrical
power vulnerability.
From time to time, I am also hearing that the increasing complexicity
of commercial ships is causing problesm therre and may in fact
contribute to groundings and sinkings. Hmmm!
Cheers
Arild
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