SHIP PROBLEM
Water borne transport is cheap and efficient but its sheer volume is a problem:
Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are double those of aviation and increasing at an alarming rate which will have a serious impact on global warming, according to research by the industry and European academics.Time for some new regulations.
Separate studies suggest that maritime carbon dioxide emissions are not only higher than previously thought, but could rise by as much as 75% in the next 15 to 20 years if world trade continues to grow and no action is taken.
The figures from the oil giant BP, which owns 50 tankers, and researchers at the Institute for Physics and Atmosphere in Wessling, Germany reveal that annual emissions from shipping range between 600 and 800m tonnes of carbon dioxide, or up to 5% of the global total. This is nearly double Britain's total emissions and more than all African countries combined.
Carbon dioxide emissions from ships do not come under the Kyoto agreement or any proposed European legislation and few studies have been made of them, even though they are set to increase.
Update: The NS Savannah was ahead of her time.
posted by J F Beck at 4:56 PM
4 Comments:
But thats great news Beck.
So shipping is powerfully efficient AND it releases a lot of life-enhancing CO2.
Good news.
We want to be working on being a great shipping nation.
Plus some ships may be big enough that we can use the greeenest of all energy sources (coal) directly.
Which would be very energy-efficient indeed.
And it would also produce a great deal of CO2 as well.
Which is good for the environment.
I have just watched the 'cool aid' doco on channel ten
they should have called it 'Kool Aid'
fucking awful rubbish emoto - science junk. Not one shred of fucking non partisan evidence. Its like if you don't agree, you are Satan's tool.
I agree with that Belgian Cardinal - I suspect Al Gore is the next Anti Christ
OBL must be laughing out loud. He gets stronger and we ramble on about a non existant threat.
shit we are finished
"increasing at an alarming rate" It's unbelievable that a sign that all is well with the global economy is viewed as alarming by some.
We'll have more of the buy local rubbish which would be the death nell for the economies of many developing nations and literally mean the death of many of their citizens. Hey, what the hell, if it means you can go to sleep at night with a smug grin on your fizzog it's got to be worth it,eh?
Nuclear-powered American Navy vessels are one thing. They're very well-maintained and the crew are reasonably well-trained.
However international cargo vessels have a tendency to be big, leaky rustbuckets crewed by the cheapest possible Third World low-lifes... in short, the last place you'd want to see a nuclear reactor.
At the risk of sounding like a greenie flake, what would be the possibilities of returning to at least a degree of wind-power? I remember a Japanese tanker experimented with this a couple of decades ago.
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