The biggest obstacles to eVessels like electric tugboats and an entirely battery-powered coastal fleet are government policy and industry inertia, mainly in the financial sector. The technical issues have been solved for decades. The cost issues and economics have favored eVessels for a decade now.
If you are, or know, any public servant, financier, or business transport decision-maker, get into this conversation that will save money for transportation, and end the biggest sources of pollution, as well as protect the future of food supply.
Lets talk real things we can do. How about advocating to stop all energy exports coming from sub arctic. How about advocating the truth about large hydroelectric..It is not clean or green energy and is the main cause for climate destabilization. Particularly affecting the largest fresh water on planet Earth..... The sub arctic, It is llittered wit mega large hydroelectric plants that are desalinating, heating, and altering the ocean currents.
My sense is that there are so many ways we can reduce emissions in the shipping/global trade area. I recall noticing garlic being imported from China, when it grows readily here. I wonder how many other examples there are of things we shouldn't import when we can grow them where we live. Also electrifying shipping vessels would be amazing. Thanks for posting.
From a technical standpoint, I would argue that hydrogen, with its higher energy density, makes more sense for decarbonization of shipping, aviation, heavy machinery and transport. For example, my hometown of Santa cruz has deployed 54 hydrogen fuel cell buses because their analysis determined that they have lower weight, travel further and require less refueling/recharging time than their all electric counterparts.
More importantly I feel that Hayhoe's narrative that electrification of everything will solve our crisis is wrong. Energy and systems experts like Nate Hagens, Art Berman, Eliot Jacobsen, Simon Michaux, William Rees and others do a great job of explaining our energy predicament and why renewables and electrification won't solve our problems, and will create new problems.
The biggest obstacles to eVessels like electric tugboats and an entirely battery-powered coastal fleet are government policy and industry inertia, mainly in the financial sector. The technical issues have been solved for decades. The cost issues and economics have favored eVessels for a decade now.
If you are, or know, any public servant, financier, or business transport decision-maker, get into this conversation that will save money for transportation, and end the biggest sources of pollution, as well as protect the future of food supply.
Undeniably, banana is poor man's fruit. She will be hit first, sadly even in the banana case.
Lets talk real things we can do. How about advocating to stop all energy exports coming from sub arctic. How about advocating the truth about large hydroelectric..It is not clean or green energy and is the main cause for climate destabilization. Particularly affecting the largest fresh water on planet Earth..... The sub arctic, It is llittered wit mega large hydroelectric plants that are desalinating, heating, and altering the ocean currents.
My sense is that there are so many ways we can reduce emissions in the shipping/global trade area. I recall noticing garlic being imported from China, when it grows readily here. I wonder how many other examples there are of things we shouldn't import when we can grow them where we live. Also electrifying shipping vessels would be amazing. Thanks for posting.
From a technical standpoint, I would argue that hydrogen, with its higher energy density, makes more sense for decarbonization of shipping, aviation, heavy machinery and transport. For example, my hometown of Santa cruz has deployed 54 hydrogen fuel cell buses because their analysis determined that they have lower weight, travel further and require less refueling/recharging time than their all electric counterparts.
More importantly I feel that Hayhoe's narrative that electrification of everything will solve our crisis is wrong. Energy and systems experts like Nate Hagens, Art Berman, Eliot Jacobsen, Simon Michaux, William Rees and others do a great job of explaining our energy predicament and why renewables and electrification won't solve our problems, and will create new problems.