Originally Posted by
TURIN
I find it strange that no one seems to be worried about commercial shipping. They don'y even have a plan to reduce their emissions never mind measure them.
Commercial shipping uses the most effective engines. They have efficiency in excess of 50% which makes them H-system compliant. They use turbocompounds to increase efficiency even further. Even the PAINT on modern ships reduces friction and thus emissions. And they do measure them. Every single project of every single ship has efficiency all over it.
Originally Posted by
TURIN
I fully accept that we as a species need to reduce our pollution (of all types) but targeting the most efficient sector first seems idiotic. its the heavy industry and surface transport that needs sorting first.
Actually, commercial shipping is the most effective sector. Wartsila diesels have BSFC of 0.260 bs hp/hour. I wonder how it compares to GEx?