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A quick search suggests that the world uses close to 100M barrels a day, of which the largest user, the US, uses about 20M. So this ship stores an amount that
by lordnacho 5y ago
A quick search suggests that the world uses close to 100M barrels a day, of which the largest user, the US, uses about 20M.
So this ship stores an amount that fuels about 1% of the world for a day.
How many such ships are there, and how many are in as bad a state as this one?
- Cthulhu_ 5y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/468405/global-oil-tanker-fleet-by-type/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/468405/global-oil-tanker... has you covered; over 2000. I do think oil tankers are less than ideal and that "they" prefer direct oil pipelines from oil fields to refineries.
- Aeolun 5y ago100M barrels?! Where do we even get that stuff? I know the earth is large, but… That’s a 1km x 1km x 1km cube of oil every 60 days.
- lostlogin 5y agoThat doesn’t seem sustainable… And when you factor in coal usage, it is t going to be pretty.