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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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[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Imagine dreaming of allocating resources to better uses. What a crazy idea!

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