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Nor are we at fault. Corporate consolidation has been happening for decades. They have psychologists on staff or contracted out to design products that sell bas

Nor are we at fault. Corporate consolidation has been happening for decades. They have psychologists on staff or contracted out to design products that sell based on inherent human bias and autonomic responses. We’re sold to at the subconscious level now. I agree given only two choices the average consumer will spend the least, but doesn’t that suggest trying to make aware or change human behavior is the wrong approach to solving the problem? I wouldn’t bother with land fills for a while. First on my list is standardizing electrical power at docks for container ships. They run the most polluting fuel on idle 24 hours per day while docked. The amount of carbon release is something like in the millions of automobiles per day. If they could plug into every port they can shut their engines off. They might not even need to carry the dirtiest fuel anymore.

mschuster91 3y ago
> I wouldn’t bother with land fills for a while. First on my list is standardizing electrical power at docks for container ships. There is some sort of effort going on, but IIRC it stalled as a consequence of covid [1]. Biggest problems are frequency differences (the entire world but the Americas runs at 50 Hz, but maritime+America runs at 60 Hz), and the fact that for the many megawatts a ship can use you need extremely high voltages to get that transferred at reasonable currents, which is a safety challenge on its own [2]. [1] https://sustainableworldports.org/wpcap/wg-3/our-mission/ https://sustainableworldports.org/wpcap/wg-3/our-mission/ [2] https://sustainableworldports.org/wp-content/uploads/Landstormversorgung-von-Kreuzfarthschiffen-2009.pdf https://sustainableworldports.org/wp-content/uploads/Landsto...
- 20after4 3y ago
  Surely the consumption is reduced when they are sitting in port idling? And do ships really need a higher voltage than common industrial power? (480v, 3 phase) I realize 480v is dangerous but not unmanageable.
  - LeChuck 3y ago
    Container ships can have thousands of reefer containers on board. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container
jl6 3y ago
> Nor are we at fault. Yes, we are. The vast majority of our (first world) consumption is not something we are forced to do. We (again, first world, but particularly here, in tech world) have comparatively massive disposable incomes and wide discretion about what we spend it on. "I can't avoid plastics because it's what my sushi comes packaged in" Don't buy the sushi.
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- nativeit 3y ago
  You’re the delight of every B.S. oil company distraction campaign. You were precisely what the people who invented the term “carbon footprint” had in mind—an eager sucker.
  - jl6 3y ago
    Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is inexcusable, but this is a relatively small aspect of their nature. The majority of their activities are done because we consumers collectively ask them to do it. Pretending that there’s a small number of bad-guy oil bosses is attractive because it makes the problem seem tractable. The inconvenient truth is that the collective action we seek amounts to collective change in our own lives. Sent from my luxury smartphone.

mschuster91 3y ago

> I wouldn’t bother with land fills for a while. First on my list is standardizing electrical power at docks for container ships. There is some sort of effort going on, but IIRC it stalled as a consequence of covid [1]. Biggest problems are frequency differences (the entire world but the Americas runs at 50 Hz, but maritime+America runs at 60 Hz), and the fact that for the many megawatts a ship can use you need extremely high voltages to get that transferred at reasonable currents, which is a safety challenge on its own [2]. [1] https://sustainableworldports.org/wpcap/wg-3/our-mission/ https://sustainableworldports.org/wpcap/wg-3/our-mission/ [2] https://sustainableworldports.org/wp-content/uploads/Landstormversorgung-von-Kreuzfarthschiffen-2009.pdf https://sustainableworldports.org/wp-content/uploads/Landsto...

20after4 3y ago
Surely the consumption is reduced when they are sitting in port idling? And do ships really need a higher voltage than common industrial power? (480v, 3 phase) I realize 480v is dangerous but not unmanageable.
- LeChuck 3y ago
  Container ships can have thousands of reefer containers on board. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container

jl6 3y ago

> Nor are we at fault. Yes, we are. The vast majority of our (first world) consumption is not something we are forced to do. We (again, first world, but particularly here, in tech world) have comparatively massive disposable incomes and wide discretion about what we spend it on. "I can't avoid plastics because it's what my sushi comes packaged in" Don't buy the sushi.

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nativeit 3y ago
You’re the delight of every B.S. oil company distraction campaign. You were precisely what the people who invented the term “carbon footprint” had in mind—an eager sucker.
- jl6 3y ago
  Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is inexcusable, but this is a relatively small aspect of their nature. The majority of their activities are done because we consumers collectively ask them to do it. Pretending that there’s a small number of bad-guy oil bosses is attractive because it makes the problem seem tractable. The inconvenient truth is that the collective action we seek amounts to collective change in our own lives. Sent from my luxury smartphone.