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This article is like a game of telephone. The cited study finds that all corrosion of all types worldwide is a 2.5T problem. Shipping is a small fraction of tha

This article is like a game of telephone. The cited study finds that all corrosion of all types worldwide is a 2.5T problem. Shipping is a small fraction of that. Hard to trust the article after such a trivially false statement in the title. Notably, the economic impact of the entire shipping industry is under 500B [1], which ought to cast doubt over the whole article. [1] http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/global-economic-engine http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/glob... Also @dang the article should link to the original at https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/r-d/news/mango-leaf-extract-can-stop-ships-from-rusting.html https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/r-d/news/mango-leaf-extr...

throwawaycert 7y ago
Those numbers you found are only for liner shipping, not all shipping.
- ErikVandeWater 7y ago
  The total world GDP is around 80 trillion. A 2.5 trillion dollar problem is about 3% of total GDP. That is an astronomical amount of rust!
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  - Blahah 7y ago
    In the context of a thread about the precision of quantitative language, I feel obligated to raise an eyebrow (and type a comment about the raising of said eyebrow) at your use of "astronomical".
    - perl4ever 7y ago
      The number of stars in the Milky Way is supposedly about 250 billion, so anything in the trillions is well qualified to be considered an astronomical number.
  - sumodm 7y ago
    Technically, it could be 2.5T because they never say annually. So may be they are talking about 100 years :|. That said, the QZ title is really misleading and click-baity. They have a simulated environment test and yet to tested for real world conditions.
killjoywashere 7y ago
or the real real article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b00632 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b00632
JadeNB 7y ago
> Hard to trust the article after such a trivially false statement in the title. Usually, the article and the title are written by different people, so the accuracy of the latter shouldn't be viewed as an indication of that of the former.

throwawaycert 7y ago

Those numbers you found are only for liner shipping, not all shipping.

ErikVandeWater 7y ago
The total world GDP is around 80 trillion. A 2.5 trillion dollar problem is about 3% of total GDP. That is an astronomical amount of rust!
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- Blahah 7y ago
  In the context of a thread about the precision of quantitative language, I feel obligated to raise an eyebrow (and type a comment about the raising of said eyebrow) at your use of "astronomical".
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    The number of stars in the Milky Way is supposedly about 250 billion, so anything in the trillions is well qualified to be considered an astronomical number.
- sumodm 7y ago
  Technically, it could be 2.5T because they never say annually. So may be they are talking about 100 years :|. That said, the QZ title is really misleading and click-baity. They have a simulated environment test and yet to tested for real world conditions.

killjoywashere 7y ago

or the real real article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b00632 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b00632

JadeNB 7y ago

> Hard to trust the article after such a trivially false statement in the title. Usually, the article and the title are written by different people, so the accuracy of the latter shouldn't be viewed as an indication of that of the former.