Before steamships came along, sailing ships like Cutty Sark went pretty much everywhere, and they weren’t dependent on hopping between fossil fuel depots. They had less clockwork-like predictability, but greater freedom, lower costs & zero emissions. And now the shipping industry is making a serious effort to regain some of those advantages:
“A cargo ship fitted with giant, rigid British-designed sails has set out on its maiden voyage”
This is the Fremantle Highway. Ordinarily this cargo ship does its bit to screw up our planet by burning lots of fossil fuel to transport cars which have already caused huge emissions in their construction and will cause more in their use.
Today it's learnt a special new trick: Of the 3000 cars onboard, 25 are electric and one of those has apparently set light to the whole cargo. As a result, we now have a huge plume of smoke just off our coast. Lots of extra CO2 emissions for absolutely no gain whatsoever. Lots of whatever you get from setting fire to a mix of materials including plastics and batteries for absolutely no gain whatsoever.
At least one crew member has died and others are seriously injured, with burns, broken bones and lung damage.
Cars destroy lives and our environment even before they are used, and they only go on to do more damage when they are used. There is no place for cars in a sustainable world.
Dehya got a lot of hate, but I think folks expected her to be Ms Diluc, and she isn't (as much as I joke about #shipping the two along my friends). I've found several cases where she works great for me, especially
fighting the dendro cube. Dropping her pyro circle burns the sphere out of its hopping attack, and doing it again wipes out the ring of thorns, preventing the following explosion.
as a burgeon trigger. Just create a lot of blooms and, again, drop her field. BOOM! Then keep creating more blooms while it's up. For extra fun, have Kazuha or Venti swirl them all together with the mobs first.
I too love all the effort people put into #Halloween yards... but I also wonder with the mainstreaming of this ghoulishness, if people ever stop to think about where it's all coming from #logistics#shipping#OilBeach
Hey Climate Scientists!
Anyone know the difference between emissions from a cargo plane vs same cargo on a ship?
(never minding the awful impact of fast fashion on the planet)
Shein, Temu and other e-commerce retailers are upending global air cargo industry
E-commerce has biggest impact on air cargo, not Red Sea crisis, says expert
🤦 Boeing declined to comment.
"The International Maritime Organization, the UN division that governs global #shipping, will meet in London today for a fortnight of talks on #decarbonising and the potential for a new levy of up to $100 (£78) a tonne of carbon produced by ships.
Research published on Monday found that #CO2 from shipping could be cut by between a third and a half this decade by using already available techniques and embarking on innovative technology such as hydrogen."
Since #electronics have been on my mind lately, I've been thinking of this ... story? situation? anecdote might be the best fit.
Doing anything every vaguely #niche, like #hobby electronics, in a small #city in the middle of #nowhere used to be quite difficult in terms of obtaining #supplies and #parts. Before the #internet, if you could plan ahead and order enough stuff at once from a big #distributor to make the #shipping charges worthwhile, #catalogs from DigiKey etc were life savers.
I've placed half a dozen orders in the last month and a bit, and it seems that every single one hasn't even #shipped for 2 or 3 days after I place the order. Everything I've ordered was in #stock (and not marginally; "27,563 in stock" type of thing).
Voters out in the "fly over" states who want to buy trucks and tractors that they depend on to do their jobs should be hounding their Congressional Representatives to support opening the port of Baltimore.
Anyone who buys anything from Europe, should also realize that closing the largest port on the east coast of the nation is not going to help their family budget.
Actual economist in NBER paper: “We find consistent evidence that vessel noise pollution from international shipping has lowered fertility and raised the mortality of the SRKW [Orcas] significantly. Had noise pollution remained at its pre-1998 levels, the SRKW population would be 30% larger. Noise pollution is a growing threat to marine mammals worldwide.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w31390
I guess I'm pleased that this NYT story admits that there is not really a viable path forward for "green" shipping at present? (I've been saying this for a while... the current scale is just not sustainable for a zillion reasons)
The #Houthi militia claimed responsibility for an attack on a #CommercialVessel off the coast of #Yemen on Wednesday that Western ofcls said #killed 2 people, the first #fatalities from Houthi attacks since the group began targeting ships late last year.
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
Mysterious oil spill sparks national emergency in Trinidad and Tobago (edition.cnn.com)
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...
Somali pirates release hijacked Bangladeshi ship (www.bssnews.net)
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....