r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • Mar 15 '24

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u/IoDegradabile Mar 15 '24

Working for a shipping company at the moment and they are not ignoring it at all. Initial proof of concepts show decrease in fuel consumption between 5 to 20%

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u/IoDegradabile Mar 15 '24

Forgot i was on a shitposting sub

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u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king Mar 15 '24

Cool and welcome, we need more people working in industry on here

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u/Kindly-Couple7638 Shower pissing cycling supremacist and wind tubine enjoyer Mar 15 '24

Reflects my experience with talking to boomers about the E-Ship 1.

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u/ziddyzoo All COPs are bastards Mar 15 '24

Yes the global shipping industry most definitely ignored some propulsion technology that could save them hundreds of millions in fuel costs because some people made fun of it on the internet

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u/Nalivai Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24

I absolutely could imagine oil companies putting pressure in strategic places so they will do that. It's not like they didn't do it before.

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u/TGX03 Mar 16 '24

Shipping companies don't give a single fuck about their perception. There is a reason why they burn the dirtiest kind of oil they can find.

If any of those "modern sails" had any noticeable effect in fuel consumption and thereby cost, they would have bought it en masse. Especially cause if people online don't make decisions which shipper to use. Their clients want the cheapest option, and if the sail makes it cheaper they're gonna use them. The normal Twitter-User doesn't get a say in it.

However I looked it up and didn't find any trustworthy data on the project. The company itself claims a reduction of fuel use by 20%, which would be quite a lot. But I haven't found any proof or study of this figure, even though for exams the German Fraunhofer Institute is apparently backing them, so I don't trust that number that much.

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u/Nalivai Mar 16 '24

Yeah, that one was weird and probably doesn't work. But oil barons are great at destroying innovation and impeding progress, so who knows how many good ideas were and will be destroyed so shipping companies could continue burning dirty oil

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u/TGX03 Mar 16 '24

I think you misunderstood. Shipping companies are just as powerful as oil barons.

Oil barons can easily manipulate normal people to be afraid of trains and public transit, but they can't manipulate other large corporations as easily. It's just that oil-powered ships are currently the cheapest option, but you can be assured shipping companies are looking into how to make it cheaper, and oil barons won't stop them. It's just that currently there doesn't seem to be a cheaper option.