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[TugboatEng]

Augmented, maybe.

https://gcaptain.com/first-wind-assisted-supertanker-delivered-in-china/

It even has a real number, 9.8% reduction in fuel consumption. A typical tanker will consume ~500-600 bbls of fuel per day so that's no trivial number.

Alas, there is little interest as it's not "zero".

 

[LionelHutz]

West coast of Canada so not that cold. I'd say you should have a clue about something before posting stupidity about it, but you've proven beyond a doubt you don't care about actual knowledge.

 

[dik]

Play nice, gentlemen (binary term for PC).

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[TugboatEng]

Lionel, airplanes operate at high altitude where the air is very cold regardless of location.

 

[dik]

ya... like -60. I'm not sure if F or C, but they are pretty close; the scales converge at -40.

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[SwinnyGG]

Lionel, airplanes operate at high altitude where the air is very cold regardless of location.

..... it's not -60 inside the plane

You're taking a very simplistic path of thought here - 'battery cold, battery no work'

 

[TugboatEng]

It would be -60 inside most commercial airplanes if it wasn't for bleed air from the turbine engines. Something that would be absent on an electric plane.

Stowaways in the landing gear compartment typically freeze to death.

 

[LionelHutz]

A deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver operating at a -60*C high altitude? Using that there as an argument is complete and utter stupidity.

 

[dik]

I thought the discussion was the environment the plane was flying in... if not, please accept my apologies. I would have thought the storage environment would still be cool.

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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[LionelHutz]

Yes, the environment a deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver operates in. If you're still clueless why it won't be -60*C due to altitude then why are you still commenting about it?