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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete (media.piefed.zip)
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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete
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[–] 167 points 8 months ago (21 children)

...and that would drop the amount of marine fuel needed. Compound interest.

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (19 children)

    which means we need to transport less fuel around, so less ships

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (18 children)

    And more unemployed seamen’s.

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    And more unemployed wharf whores.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Doesn’t anyone think about wharf whores!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    They can install solar panels or wire or something and not have to be away from their family for months at a time. Also the vast majority of seamen shipping oil are coerced captive workers from impoverished places with confiscated passports and no rights. Employed isn’t really the right word to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    So overseas shipping rates drop and some of the companies convert their ships to give joy-rides in seas (because cheaper sea travel), while some seamen get to explore avenues like deep sea exploration (which seems to be a really underdeveloped field) and development.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Somehow I’m not seeing your average deck hand transitioning into deep sea exploration.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well, the average deck hand can stay working at the normal ships that are shipping other stuff.
    The above average ones can become a deck hand for the newer vehicles for deep sea operations.

    Both are probably already paid low enough that corporate can easily pay them while reducing shipping rates at the same time.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I’m thinking the deep sea exploration pays a bit more than a guy who can hook some cables on a crate.

    But wtf do I know…

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