If it isn’t cheaper it isn’t on the board for the next decade or two outside niche routes. The hard part is in making it economically viable. We already know sailboats work.
That’s a decision we, as a civilization, need to make. I personally hope we manage to enact transnational policies that effectively price environmental and social externalities in my lifetime. Or else witness “free market” capitalism continue to degrade our planet and the lives of millions of less privileged people.
That really big question for society is how to force GHG emissions externalities to the polluters. In the current political climate it doesn't appear possible...
JumpCrisscross|3 months ago
If it isn’t cheaper it isn’t on the board for the next decade or two outside niche routes. The hard part is in making it economically viable. We already know sailboats work.
bloudermilk|3 months ago
happosai|3 months ago
newsclues|3 months ago
If you could build mass fleets of smaller ships that are sail and electric powered to move electric cars and containers of batteries.
kaashif|3 months ago
We need more container ships polluting or the post 2020 global warming rate could double!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3