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Not world’s first emission-free cargo ship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.m.wikipedia.org
by coolspot 5y ago
Not world’s first emission-free cargo ship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput
- dredmorbius 5y agoAlso the German Otto Hahn and Japanese Mutsu. All three of the Western-alliance ships had significant technical as well as cost problems. The Hahn and Mutsu were refitted with conventional propulstion, the Savannah retired and now a museum ship in Baltimore, MD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Civilian_nuclear_ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Civi... TFA does make the dual claim for the Birkeland of being both autonomous and emissions-free. Though one might make a similar argument of barge traffic drawn by electrically-powered "mules". Or possibly even their non-electrified original inspirations.
- myself248 5y agoArguably every ship that ever sailed prior to the invention of engines was "emission-free" by most standards.