Chris Penk is kind of a dumbass, isn’t he? The amount of things he’s been completely wrong about is a very long list.

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      3 months ago

      I wasn’t expecting miracles from a National led government, but I expected better than this.

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        It’s all about the short term, this reminds me of the time that Mike Hosting said that petrol engines are simple when comparing to electric motors.

        Just completely uninformed!

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          Holy shit what a dumbass.

          I’ve seen both electric and petrol motors disassembled, a modern combustion engine is a massively complex piece of equipment, with insanely tight tolerances, and hundreds, if not thousands, of moving parts, and will absolutely self destruct if a critical component fails.

          An electric motor, on the other hand, has one moving part, and can run continuously for years without maintenance.

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            As long as the bearings are maintained, motors that don’t experience shock loading can run for a long time.

            I remember a motor that had no maintenance done on it in 2 years, it only failed due to the dust build up causing it to overheat. That is ~17500 hrs of running, without any maintenance at all.