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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete (slrpnk.net)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Once per installation per x years. While battery and solar replacement seem like a long time, the massive scale needed for a global buildout will require a continuous stream of shipping. It’s not free and will never be locally produced everywhere. Obviously a couple orders of magnitude less shipping, but energy related shipping is not disappearing entirely.

Actually I’d like to see someone do that math, out of curiosity. In a world with all renewables, does energy related shipping drop from 40% to 1%? 0.1%?

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