The 15 biggest ships emit as much pollution as EVERY CAR IN THE WORLD COMBINED. There are currently 140 nuclear powered ships in use around the world-- submarines, icebreakers, aircraft carriers-- HOW IS MAKING THESE COMMERCIAL VESSELS NUCLEARLY VIABLE NOT OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY?
We're spending all this money and effort making regulations to reduce carbon emissions that make everybody's lives more difficult and cost people their jobs while this solution is staring us right in the face.
Reposting this thread here since you guys might have actual reasons why this isn't happening. All I can think of are conspiracy theories.
Is this is intended as some sort of sly >muh cars only pollute as much as 15 ships, we don't gotta touch me car argument by bitter drivers who fear change?
Nathaniel Williams
He has a point unlike you. Why change a billion cars before 15 fucking ships? Makes no sense.
Nathaniel Hall
>I'm too poor to even have a garage, drivers must pay!!!
who's actually bitter here?
Julian Edwards
>muh fear of change!!!
Ethan Cruz
Four countries have launched nuclear-powered merchant ships: America built the NS Savannah, a passenger-cargo ship; Germany built the Otto Hahn, which carried ore for nearly a decade; Japan built the Mutsu, which was decommissioned after a single test run; and Russia built the Sevmorput, which carried cargo until 2012. www.flexport.com/blog/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships
The German-built 15,000 tonne Otto Hahn cargo ship and research facility sailed some 650,000 nautical miles on 126 voyages in 10 years without any technical problems. It had a 36 MWt reactor delivering 8 MW to the propeller. However, it proved too expensive to operate and in 1982 it was converted to diesel.
The problem is that large modern ships do not burn diesel. They have special engines that run on 'bunker oil', a tarry substance that has to be heated to become semifluid and combustible. Asphalt, the cheapest and dirtiest fuel in the world. That's why just 16 of the world's largest ships emit more sulfur (partially into the hydrosphere) than all the world's cars combined emit into the atmosphere. IMO regulations are voluntary.
Landon Mitchell
I own a townhouse in the middle of an expensive city where there's no parking and have a 15 minute bike ride to work. You live in a suburb of some shithole like Houston where "having a garage" is considered a status symbol and have a 2 hour commute
Michael Thompson
Are you bragging about living in a city? Lol im dead.
Noah Rivera
Not him and that's nice for you, hell I'd greatly prefer that over having to drive everywhere but you realize that simply isn't possible for most locations. Especially larger more forestry states like the South.
This shouldn't be an excuse to stop improving cars but if it would be much more beneficial to pull research into making larger crafts like boats more efficient then why not do it?
