Mundane News

[mybike]

My son just posted "FYI, it was 2 years yesterday since the Ronnie Pickering incident"

 

[Salty seadog]

And it's World Car Free Day today!

I'm chugging along on a 49,000 tonne ship. Wonder how many cars that equates to emissions wise

 

[raleighnut]

I'm chugging along on a 49,000 tonne ship. Wonder how many cars that equates to emissions wise

Less than the cars it's carrying I bet.

 

[Salty seadog]

Less than the cars it's carrying I bet.

Probably, we've 150 lorries too.

 

[Illaveago]

I've just walked through a spider's web, I'd forgotten that it was a no go area. Silly me for sticking to the path.

 

[Illaveago]

Actually, probably not. Shipping accounts for a significant proportion of transport CO2 emissions, for example, and that percentage is growing. There's also all the other pollutants produced, particularly because of the fuel type used.

As this article points out, shipping is the '...elephant in the climate negotiations room'.

I would have thought that flying would contribute quite a bit as well.

 

[raleighnut]

Oh it does - but shipping is often overlooked.

He's on a ferry not some massive container ship travelling thousands of miles to bring utter crap over from China to satisfy our consumer driven society or a tanker full of fuel to keep all those tin boxes rolling.

 

[ianrauk]

 

[raleighnut]

And? How exactly is that relevant? The fuel's the same.

I think you'll find it's not, international ships use a far 'dirtier' form of oil when they're at sea and switch to a cleaner fuel oil when they approach land although the pollutant in the cheap stuff is mainly Sulpher it also produces more CO as it doesn't burn as well.

 

[raleighnut]

And? How exactly is that relevant? The fuel's the same.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...ipping&usg=AFQjCNHDOwjEqupsVBbkxwJd97YofT-rrw

 

[raleighnut]

The only real difference between Marine Gas Oil and Heavy Fuel Oil is the sulphur content. MGO has half the sulphur level of HFO.

Sulphur isn't the key issue when it comes to climate change.

Yeah I suppose acid rain isn't that bad after all,

 

[Gravity Aided]

How about this one?

Looks detatched, all right.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I made corn bread.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I should cut the grass, before some Impala move in.

 

[Asa Post]

I should cut the grass, before some Impala move in.

I'm not childish, I'm childlike. There's a big difference.