Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars. Low-grade ship bunker fuel (or fuel oil) has up to 2,000 times the sulphur content of diesel fuel used in US and European automobiles.Why Denmark?
The title of world’s largest container ship is actually held by eight identical ships owned by Danish shipping line Mærsk.Here's one of the diesel engines in the factory.
Not only are shipbuilders resetting the world record for size on a regular basis but so are the diesel engines that propel them. One of the eight longest container ships in the world, the 1,300 ft Emma Mærsk also has the world's largest reciprocating engine. At five storeys tall and weighing 2300 tonnes, this 14 cylinder turbocharged two-stroke monster puts out 84.4 MW (114,800 hp) - up to 90MW when the motor's waste heat recovery system is taken into account. These mammoth engines consume approx 16 tons of fuel per hour or 380 tons per day while at sea.
Strange. Not only does Kyoto ignore the currently accepted "world's largest polluter" (China), it doesn't address these ships. Hmm. Well, I guess that "man-made climate change" and air pollution aren't as serious as we are told. What other conclusion can we reach?(Specifics stolen from a website that rhymes with truck pants.)
5 comments:
Seeing that picture of the monster crank made me think: there is a redneck in Pasadena thinking to himself right now "how am I gonna shoehorn that bad boy in my 78 Camaro"
Don't you know that everything is America's fault? :-p
Of course it's America's fault! Who can blame the Danes for their huge, soot-belching diesel engines? It's America that's been causing those ships to haul gigatonnes of trinkets from China, you see. The Danes are only the innocent middleman. So there!
Now that this topic has been brought into the public arena, I'm waiting for a government mandate for plug-in electric container ships. Seems impractical? When has that stopped the regulators? They'll give us till 2014.
(Hmmm... That could be a hot news item on The Onion.)
Paul writes,
Sulfur comes out of the ground, gets burned through the engine, falls to the ground.
What are we talking about? One, five hundredth trillion(ith) of the worlds surface sulfur?
From Sulfur and Brimstone sin hectoring, to environmental sulfur hectoring by, like, that failed Divinity 'student', Al Gore.
Priests, Rabbis, Lefties....they always have you in a sin hole that you can never get out of, and puts them on top.
Nice trick for the boob bait eaters.
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