See on the news that 320 ships are now trapped in the Suez canal, as one container ship gives off as much pollution as 50m cars it seems obvious to me that our getting rid of a few old cows will quickly save our world, what a crazy world we now live in!
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- Thread starter BrianV
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I doubt very much one ship could possibly give off the same pollution as 50 million cars. Sometimes it's a good idea to check figures that plainly are bonkers
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- South Molton
It's 50 million toy cars that are in the containers!
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
That’s a staggering fact if true, that one container ship causes as much pollution as 50 m cars.
I’m sure I’ve heard it before but that’s not the same thing as making it fact.
And to put it in context, how many cars are there in the country? 60 odd million population including children but not everyone has a car so probably less than the 50m.
How many container ships out on the seas, how many docked in our ports at any one time? How many that visit our shores in a year.
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- South Molton
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I was shocked!
- Location
- Cumbria
Seem's he has checked his figures: https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-container-shipping-carbon-pollution-114721
15 of these Mega Ships = the pollution equivalent of all the cars in the World.
15 of these Mega Ships = the pollution equivalent of all the cars in the World.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
And yet transport doesn’t show up on CO2 emission figures for imported produce. It’s always argued that these ships carry such huge quant of goods, that the impact per item is very small, but I have to wonder how much of what is currently stuck around the Suez area is actually needed?
Same with airplanes. Old 747's used 36,000 gallons of fuel in a 10 hour flight. How they've managed to keep this so quiet I'll never know................
- Location
- Cumbria
It will be low per item. However, are they carrying pins or cars ? So that calculation is irrelevant.
It was said at one time you used more fuel taking a tv from the store home than it took to get it there from the Far East.
Not sure if its true.
Not sure if its true.
- Location
- Cumbria
- Location
- North West
I suppose it would depend how close to the store you live
Canada Farmer
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The most inefficient part of transportation is the final distribution in the country that its exported too, allegedly.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
If you didn't have transport, you wouldn't have much, including a house to live in.
Imagine how inefficient having to produce everything (not just food) locally would be.
Imagine how inefficient having to produce everything (not just food) locally would be.
Just a damm shame so much of it is produced in that tin pot country China
- Location
- Lincolnshire
My house is made from stone dug up locally. At one time my great grandfather made all the wheels needed locally. There is still the remnants of the estate carpentry workshop in our village where all wooden items were manufactured from local timber. The neighbouring estate still has its own “ estate carpenter”. It’s surprising what we could still make locally though it was a slow job sawing planks from tree trunks with a two man saw in a saw pit. We still have the saws just in case.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It needn’t be though. I think it’s as much that we have “lost interest” than anything. My dad’s generation were really into all sorts of practical technological skills and interests. Nowadays if you can’t do it sat gawping at a screen, nobody wants to know.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
The pollution quoted is actually referring solely to the sulphur emmitted , which is a very strange way of measuring the pollution.
An average large container ship uses around 63,000 US gallons per day according to google.
This is heavy oil which has a higher carbon content than standard gas oil.
Not sure the average car uses but I suspect the real figures are about 1 ship equals 50,000 cars .
This equate to about 252 US gallons per mile or 224 imperial gallons per mile
The high sulphur content is not helped by the fact that Sulphur removed from ULSD as we use across much of the developed world is dumped into the heavy oil. This dumping means the fuel is 1,000 times richer in sulphur, times this by your 50,000 cars gives you the 50,000,000 figure beloved by environmental fruitcakes.
There is little or no evidence to show it has any environmental impact
An average large container ship uses around 63,000 US gallons per day according to google.
This is heavy oil which has a higher carbon content than standard gas oil.
Not sure the average car uses but I suspect the real figures are about 1 ship equals 50,000 cars .
This equate to about 252 US gallons per mile or 224 imperial gallons per mile
The high sulphur content is not helped by the fact that Sulphur removed from ULSD as we use across much of the developed world is dumped into the heavy oil. This dumping means the fuel is 1,000 times richer in sulphur, times this by your 50,000 cars gives you the 50,000,000 figure beloved by environmental fruitcakes.
There is little or no evidence to show it has any environmental impact
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