MidgePhotoFeb 26

"The solar panels delivered by a single container ship will generate as much power over their lifetimes as more than 50 ships carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) or 100 carrying coal, according to recent IEA analysis."

#solar #coal #ships

Show threadKnustFeb 27
@Photo55 how do the gas and coal ships generate power?
Show threadMidgePhotoFeb 27

@Knust
Seriously?
Why is the gas or coal being shipped?

There's an underlying point there as well, that a lot of shipping, and then heavy vehicles on roads, is just to move fossil fuels from where they came out of the ground, through a refinery - or two* - and then on to where they will be burned to generate forward motion. And thus a lot of oil is burned to shift that shipping.
BEVs, wind, solar, etc, reduce that parasitic burning and CO2.

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* the rather unnecessary Venezuelan oil doesn't flow easily, so Naptha refined from lighter oil in other places is shipped there to mix with it, then the mixture goes to a refinery.
Fascinating chemistry, huge targets if you are at war.
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