Don't forget that 16 ships pollute more than every car on earth but we get told to stop driving trucks and SUVs by people who own jets.
This cannot be understated. Modern tanker ships are insane polluters. A single tanker emits emissions comparable to 50 million consumer cars. There's 90,000 tankers on the oceans. These things burn diesel with 2000x as much sulfur by the ton per nautical mile. Literally the cheapest, worst possible, left over fuel possible.
Don't forget that 16 ships pollute more than every car on earth but we get told to stop driving trucks and SUVs by people who own jets.
This cannot be understated. Modern tanker ships are insane polluters. A single tanker emits emissions comparable to 50 million consumer cars. There's 90,000 tankers on the oceans. These things burn diesel with 2000x as much sulfur by the ton per nautical mile. Literally the cheapest, worst possible, left over fuel possible.
Converting these tankers, even a portion, to nuclear power would be more impactful any Green New Deal or Paris Accords the politicians could cook up.
Yes, I love how they fly their private planes around the country just to tell me to take public transportation and turn off my lights.
This is great intel. This coupled with China's carbon belching was enough to turn me on environmental policy.