{"id":399,"date":"2018-03-02T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:01:23","slug":"cargo-ships-are-big-polluters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/cargo-ships-are-big-polluters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo ships are big polluters!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you think of or hear about huge cargo ships, usually you don\u2019t think of pollution that they cause. But it is true that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_impact_of_shipping\">nearly 2.5% o<\/a>f global emissions come from cargo ships, which are primarily run on diesel fuel. That is very big and is expected to grow even bigger as the transport industry grows.&nbsp;<br>So it is imperative that we address the energy consumption of these cargo ships. Typical alternative energy choices come to mind like- solar, wind.&nbsp;<br>For solar to be effective for such large scale ship, the battery tech is not quite there. But, could be considered for a short trip ships. Best option for energy that is plenty is wind! Recently saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90376983\/cargo-ships-are-big-polluters-can-they-go-back-to-using-sails?\">FastCompany write <\/a>about how some companies are starting to think building &amp; deploying large ships driven by sails! Awesome and good luck Neoline. If they can build better sails and leverage wind-prediction models to route via high wind paths, this could work. The travel time may be a little unpredictable but should be ok. Or perhaps a hybrid of solar\/battery plus wind could be a game changer!&nbsp;<br>We can\u2019t avoid shipping of goods across the globe and sea transport is the economical option when compared to aviation. So, it is wonderful #ProWoSo to work on.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck to all the Pieneers! As always, know of anyone or any startup working on this, please let me know, I will update this post.<br>[Image Credit: Thanks to kliempictures via <a href=\"http:\/\/s\">Pixabay<\/a>]\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>When you think of or hear about huge cargo ships, usually you don\u2019t think of pollution that they cause. But it is true that nearly 2.5% of global emissions come from cargo ships, which are <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/cargo-ships-are-big-polluters\/\" title=\"Cargo ships are big polluters!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,51,140,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cargo","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ship","11":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}