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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by jillesvangurp on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:32AM (#24997667)
I was talking about the whole journey. You don't get anywhere in this world in less than a few days/weeks with a big oil tanker.
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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by nkurz on Thursday November 05, 2020 @08:20AM (#24997970)
> A typical oil tanker consumes a couple of hundreds of tons of bunker fuel per day to move a couple of thousands of tons of fuel around.

While it certainly makes sense to calculate for the entire journey, if you were talking about the "whole journey" why did you specify "per day"? It's hard to blame 'ximeng' for relying on your written comment rather than what you intended to say. :)

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