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Another news item where UK has put the net zero cart before the horse. Electricity prices make it 4 times cheaper for ships to generate their own energy dockside rather than using the on shore hook ups meaning the port is left to cough up the £500K annual standing charges for the tax payer subsidised installations and are considering decommissioning them to save on costs.
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Do what they do in some US ports. Make shore power compulsory.
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That would be popular in Southampton where the cruise liners notably contribute to local pollution, but not all berths have shore power due to lack of grid connections..
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In this country ports have to fight to get the business, make it more expensive and the ships will go elsewhere.
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And the green sustainable revolution charges on unabated
Well, it did last 10 years at a cost of £780K
Never associate with idiots on their own level, because, being an intelligent man, you'll try to deal with them on their level - and on their level they'll beat you every time.
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On the other hand, China's emissions seem to have peaked five years earlier than the expected date of 2030:
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I have only one comment, government involvement.
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Are you implying that's an argument against green, environmental or sustainable building?
The materials used (concrete anyone..) are irrelevant where incompetence, bad design or bad implementation are involved. More practise is obviously needed as there are plenty of example of building quite complicated structures (homes/libraries/offices etc.) with wood, particularly in Scandinavia.
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The geothermal research project at United Mines in Cornwall has progressed far enough that they're now connected to the grid and generating electricity.
I was hoping there would be a district heating system too, but the article doesn't mention one.
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Hiya. This might be of interest. Ferries, not cruise liners, but Southampton does have those too.
Ferry Pollution Worse than Cars in Many European Port CitiesFerries in port cities like Barcelona, Dublin and Naples are responsible for more toxic air pollution (SOx) than all the cars in those cities, a new study by T&E shows. Promisingly, 60% of Europe’s ferries could be electric by 2035, and over half (52%) would be cheaper to operate than fossil-fuelled vessels, the report shows. With the average age of ferries in Europe at 26 years, now is the time for a clean renewal, says T&E.
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