
Bolt
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I’m not sure it would have any significant effect.
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Thank you for taking the time to correct my mistake.
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The biggest electric lorry in the world is certainly a bit of a laugh as it is currently producing more energy than it consumes. That is a very advanced level of understanding on someone’s part!
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None of the reasons for me buying a battery saw involved being green. i don’t see why anyone heeds to get hung upon their so called green credentials. Things that interested me about the technology was... - low noise. I can talk to coworkers whilst I work. - low vibration. Handy if you’ve been sawing for well over 30 years and those little fingers are starting to loose their rosy glow on cold days. - no exhaust fumes. I don’t go home stinking of 2 stroke. - no petrol can fumes ( I fear I may be a little sensitised to petrol vapour now, but I never let on as I’m a real man). - cool. I never noticed how much of a pool of heat you are in whilst using a petrol saw on a scorching day. With the battery saw, the cooling air is still cool when it exits the motor casing, and you can angle it towards yourself. - energy independence. If I had a PV array on my roof, I could charge using that, and the government and fuel companies could go stuff themselves. I am glad we weren’t arguing. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
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Well, as it’s a T540i, it would probably be a bit sh!t, but then it’s closest petrol equivalent (ms200t) would be a bit sh!t also, don’t you think?
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You are arguing with the wrong fella, I’m afraid. I don’t give a **************** about being green. I like chainsawing. I like chainsawing with petrol saws, and because I’m a curious kind of guy, I invested in a battery saw and I like chainsawing with that too.
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I have not had this problem. The biggest battery I have is a BLI300 battery. This charges on a pretty mediocre battery charger in less than an hour. I was going to get a car charger, but for arb work, I haven’t found the need to bother. I have taken the mains charger with me to a few jobs, but never found I needed to bother the customer to plug it in.
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Your point is that petrol saws draw from existing infrastructure, my point is so do battery saws. For the record, I own over a dozen petrol saws, no electric saws and one batteries saw, so you can draw from that whatever you wish. I have a nice old DCS6400 and I’m very fond of it. I’m not giving it up any time soon. I have learned to recognise progress and advantage when I see it though.
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Apparently , it is possible to charge battery devices at night using the existing surplus of electricity.
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Apparently, it is possible to charge battery devices at night using the existing surplus of electricity.
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You’re not taking into account the manufacturing of the components of the engines, carburettors, oil rigs, supertankers, refineries, transfer hubs, petrol tankers, filling stations, combi-cans etc.... the energy and emissions put into making the product.
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That’s the spirit. Oh and solar. Don’t forget solar.
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Alas..... google throws nothing up. Probably being suppressed by them pesky fossil fuel companies. ’ere, @DCS6800i got a source?
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ooooh, I didn’t know that! Everyone knows that they used to blend pulverised coal with the biomass at powerplants such as Drax and Didcot. They are / were primary coal fired stations after all, but I didn’t know they did that at Steven’s Croft..... I thought it was custom built for biomass... it’s amazing that have the coal handling infrastructure on site. Greta ain’t gonna like this!!
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On the chart, wood is the dark green line just below the coal. I think a lot of it is shipped 3/4 of the way around the globe in bulk transporters that run on crude oil. Not really sure that wood holds the key to power generation quite yet!