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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by sterlind on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:10AM (#21729639)
Maybe you could get the US Navy to crew a few container mega-ships in the national interest of international commerce? Reducing climate change and political concern over the carbon involved is arguably a better use of the Navy's time than fleet exercises, and it wouldn't take that many people.
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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by simonh on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:40AM (#21729749)
There are over 9,000 fully cellular container ships operational right now, and container ships are only 13% of global merchant shipping capacity. The roughly 70 ~20k TEU megaships all together are only 10% of total container ship capacity. A few megaships is insignificant in overall economic terms.
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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by jiofih on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:05AM (#21730068)
What is the other 87%? How is that possible if 90% of goods are transported by sea?
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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by maxerickson on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:53AM (#21730264)
The majority of goods are on bulk carriers and tankers. Grain, coal, oil, etc.
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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by jiofih on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:32PM (#21733840)
The parent said “container ships are only 13% of global merchant shipping capacity”. I’m wondering how else goods are being transported...
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Re:Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel by maxerickson on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:32PM (#21733847)
Indeed, bulk carriers and tankers are ships that aren't container ships.
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