--- "Mack, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you were to forego the option of travelling with the engine
> running,
> then you would have an electric boat, powered from batteries, and a
> separate diesel generator. Would that mean that you could use red
> diesel in the generator? Or claim the electric boat licence discount?
>
> Or stretching the point a little further,
<snip?, swapping over the battery sets periodically,
> but never having the generator connected directly to the traction
> motor?
I read somewhere recently that you can't propel the boat either
directly OR INDIRECTLY with the generated power and claim the discount.
But no time now to figure where I saw that or the credibility of the
source!
- george
www.canals.com [still down]
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