With a fuel efficiency of 1 litre of the dirtiest fuel per ~5 metres and an initial build cost of just £3.5 billion of your notes with the former Prince of Wales on them (and a truck load more of them for maintenance), what’s not to love about the Prince of Wales carrier’s contribution to net zero?
19,000 km (range) / 4,000,000 litres of bunker fuel = 0.00475 km per litre
…’Securing’ your future and heading to net zero along the way 🥳 by moving around the world one of the biggest collections of virgin steel in a single vehicle that’s utterly reliant upon fossil fuels to go anywhere at all
…In generals (and admirals) are always fighting the last war news:
I’m reminded today that the UK’s QE class carriers are in part an outcome of the Blair government’s 1998 Strategic Defence Review.
Produced back when we’d collectively shoved about 880 billion fewer tonnes of CO2 into the air than we have now. That’s about 100 tonnes per person – which is the weight of about 1,500 people – over the last 28 years.
But none of this matters, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier#Background
Jonathan Schofield