And they're not doing it by buying carbon credits!
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Fullauto223cal (Old Spike)
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sato (Old Spike)
it's a good public image but the real reason they're doing it is good business sense. it's become finanacially beneficial to switch to electric power and will be even more so in the future, doing so protects the company from fuel price fluctuations and shortages, and by making their method of transport clean they counter the "buy local" rise and keep customers.
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Fullauto223cal (Old Spike)
Dude, if you think they will EVER run a cargo ship on batteries, sunshine and magical fairy dust, you're dreaming.
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GKhan (Old Spike)
Come on, it's not magical fairy dust, it's rainbows. The future will run on rainbows. Well that and maybe hydrogen fuel cells. A lot of these ships are already diesel-electric anyway, diesel generator and electric engine, so there may be a case for replacing electrical production from another source as a step solution. Though I wouldn't be surprised if rethinking the entire system would be the better alternative.
I keep hoping Thorium or some unweaponizable Plutonium/Uranium options like what is used in submarines will come around that could be a fit for ships .
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(Old Spike)
it's a good public image but the real reason they're doing it is good business sense. it's become finanacially beneficial to switch to electric power and will be even more so in the future, doing so protects the company from fuel price fluctuations and shortages, and by making their method of transport clean they counter the "buy local" rise and keep customers.
(Old Spike)
Dude, if you think they will EVER run a cargo ship on batteries, sunshine and magical fairy dust, you're dreaming.
(Old Spike)
Come on, it's not magical fairy dust, it's rainbows. The future will run on rainbows. Well that and maybe hydrogen fuel cells. A lot of these ships are already diesel-electric anyway, diesel generator and electric engine, so there may be a case for replacing electrical production from another source as a step solution. Though I wouldn't be surprised if rethinking the entire system would be the better alternative.
I keep hoping Thorium or some unweaponizable Plutonium/Uranium options like what is used in submarines will come around that could be a fit for ships .