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Don’t ship oil through it then, ship food and consumer goods. Demand for oil is going to drop a lot in 20 years anyway.
by labster 3y ago
Don’t ship oil through it then, ship food and consumer goods. Demand for oil is going to drop a lot in 20 years anyway.
- loeg 3y agoCargo ships carry their own fuel, which can still leak.
- hinkley 3y agoThey run on some really nasty shit too.
- jonasdegendt 3y agoThere's multiple orders of magnitude in difference between the amount of fuel a ship carries, and the amount of oil a tanker can hold. Think measured in hundreds of thousands versus tens of millions of gallons. If we start accounting for every single externality for every solution for a problem we come up with, we might as well stop leaving the house at all.
- Xylakant 3y agoThe Fremantle Highway was burning and at risk of sinking in the Wadden Sea, off the Dutch coast of just a week ago. This would have severely damaged the entire habitat - and that was a car carrier only. Spills from minor incidents are a concern as well, especially in habitats that are important, slow to recover and already under a lot of pressure. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393507 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393507
- loeg 3y agoA fuel oil spill from a cargo ship is not a trivial externality to be ignored! Yes, it's a smaller order of magnitude than an oil tanker. But it's not de minimis.
- nradov 3y agoLong term the industry seems to be moving toward ammonia fuel. https://spectra.mhi.com/how-ammonia-will-fuel-the-ships-of-asia https://spectra.mhi.com/how-ammonia-will-fuel-the-ships-of-a...
- labster 3y agoAlgae: “please spill your ammonia fuel k tx”