It is highly inefficient.

Spend fuel to deliver the fuel from a place that uses that fuel to produce that fuel.

Compared to batteries and solar, which is basically once set up you just absorb energy from the sun and charge the batteries from anywhere with sun exposure to power vehicles.

tyranny of the trucking equation.

This is the deep relationality of existence itself, the relationality that makes us relational beings, having been created out of our relations with others and the world.

Couldn’t think of a better word, I guess?

Yeah sorry, downvote me all you want but I thought this was crap.

The tanker in the picture makes me think it’s by ship.

@MrNobody The title is "Birthing Justice for All", with a subheading of "Community access to safe, supportive and cultural care". There is a username @joan_de_art . Seven text bubbles say parental leave as long as you need, full reproductive rights, post-partum community support, soundproof apartments, places to grieve, pedestrian centered, nature play centers.

@MrNobody Image description (1 of 2):A view of a city. Bottom part has a bus on a road, while the majority of the land surface consists of a stream, a light traffic bridge over it, more similar paths and not very high buildings. Building signs include library, eldercare, childcare, napzone, doulas, the meal train, the midwives, pumping cafe, bathrooms, therapy and diaper pantry. Several people are depicted walking, running, cycling or wheelchairing. There are several kites and birds.

It's significant regardless of which one of those it is.

Takes money to make money, baby!

@MrNobody ähnlich verhält es sich mit dem Eigenverbrauch der RWE-Braunkohle-Tagebaue. Ich meine mich an eine Zahl von 25% oder 30% zu erinnern, die vom erzeugten Strom im benachbarten Kraftwerk direkt wieder von der gigantischen Maschinerie verbraucht werden...

that's much too generous, i'd say all but the previous 2 projections are just straight up lies and propaganda.
And even those are probably just less obvious propaganda

Appreciate it. Quartz provides a link to UNCTAD's data, but the link seems to be dead:

https://unctadstat.unctad.org/wds/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=32363

Checking this out on the Wayback Machine, it's a table titled "World seaborne trade by types of cargo and by group of economies".

Here's that data from 2025.

And this is the source that source references: https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-consists-of-fossil-fuels

It’s by weight (in the first paragraph). It also seems to include petrochemicals, though I don’t know how much that affects things.

Here's the report Joshi is referencing.

I wish we'd link to this so we could actually discuss it instead of (or at least on top of) circulating a screenshot of a Bluesky post epically owning the libs fossil fuels.

Edit: Here's the 2022 UNCTAD report that the IRENA one cites. The metric is "billions of ton-miles", where a ton-mile is simply, unsurprisingly, a unit of transportation – a ton moved one mile.

Edit 2: Hang on, no, that assumption was faulty, looking at the graph again. The UNCTAD report's graph only separates out gas and oil, so I have no idea what metric UNCTAD is using when they write:

Around 40 per cent of maritime cargo comprises fossil fuels, so the energy transition will alter the demand for shipping, as well as vessel types and sizes, and the fuels used by ports and ships. Sailing patterns and shipping networks will also need to be reorganized – as will the ports servicing such ships.

Edit 3: See below.

Fantastic!

I should really get my art skills back in shape as I would do the opposite end of life as well.

One of the most artful things of life is knowing how to ride out the end.

The past may have not been this, but we can make it the future.

As they say, be the change you want to see in the world. Live you life as close to this as possible so that others can see it is possible.

Yeah, it seems provocative but it condenses too much and strips it entirely of its detail.

It is a good question however, how much oil is used moving oil?

That's because no one expected China and allowing competition, lowering prices to boost adoption even in 3rd world countries!

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

by weight? by volume? by dollars?

Thank you 🤩

This is a chart of how badly their projection assumptions/software is.

Summary of projections: Wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong again. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. way wrong. very wrong. still wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong.

Maybe we can consolidate the Doulas and the Midwives into one combined storefront, though? Seems a bit redundant to have both so close to each other, but separate.

happy cake day

God that's lovely. What could be, what could have been

“To the moon” sets the bar too low. We are going to the sun.