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A cool guide to the carbon footprint of major travel methods

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A cool guide to the carbon footprint of major travel methods - Lemmy.ca

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Show threadN3UR0NMay 19, 2024
Ferry kinda sus.
Show threadsomethingsnappyMay 19, 2024
Ferry super sus. Like a cruise ship, but starts and stops more? Doesn’t make sense.
Show threaddubyakay

A ferry is dense. It packs a lot of people into a small space on boats that were made to effectively haul people between two docks at a relatively short distance.

A cruise ship is huge, and given the amount of amenities they host, the density of PASSENGERS on board is vastly lower, yet has a lot of added weight from service crew, pools, dining halls, water slides, slot machines and what not.

Ferries can be electric too. Never heard of an electric cruise ship before.

May 19, 2024 at 12:50pmWeb
Show threadIronKrillMay 20, 2024
The problem here is the sheer variety of ferries. If we take BC ferries on the west coast of Canada as an example, they have multiple lower decks for cars and thus their passenger capacity is reduced and they run multiple times a day regardless of their passenger count. I fail to see how these are fuel efficient. There should be multiple ferry entries like the guide already has for cars.