http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/...-50-million-ca
Here at GreenCarReports.com, we mostly write about, you know, cars. But occasionally something so appalling comes across our desk that we want other people to know.
Today's candidate is an article from the British newspaper The Guardian. The headline decorously notes the health risks of the global shipping industry have been "understated". But once you dig into the data, the word understated hardly seems sufficient.
The bottom line: One giant container ship pollutes the air as much as 50 million cars. Yes, that's 50 million. Which means that just 15 ships that size emit as much as today's entire global "car park" of roughly 750 million vehicles. Among the bad stuff: Sulfur, soot, and other particulate matter that embeds itself in human lungs to cause a variety of cardiopulmonary illnesses.
Since the mid-1970s, developed countries have imposed increasingly strict regulations on auto emissions. In three decades, precise electronic engine controls, new high-pressure injectors, and sophisticated catalytic converters have cut emissions of nitrous oxides, carbon dioxides, and hydrocarbons by more than 98 percent. New regulations will further reduce these already minute limits.
But ships today are where cars were in 1965: utterly uncontrolled, free to emit whatever they like. Just one of many statistics: A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons.
And in the near term, very little is going to change. Why? Two reasons: Bunker fuel, and jurisdiction.
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This problem can be eliminated to ZERO, and I do mean ZERO pollutants, nearly overnight. ZERO. I'm not kidding in the slightest. ZERO pollutants.
For probably quite a bit less than $60M. ie, less than $1M dollars spent on outfitting each ship. There are 57 ships of that size according to the wiki entry on such ships. and much more can easily be done to the thousands of other ships sailing the ocean waters..
Very, very simply, the answer is...mixing the air intake of these giant engines with.....wait for it.....:
BROWN'S GAS.
It really is that simple and it can be done in less than about 3-6 months, for each ship.
Except, you are not allowed to have or use this technology in any large or powerful public way.
It's too close to being an over unity technology.
It is a a gateway technology.
it Illustrates many complex issues with the standard theories of physics that have yet to be answered and shows people the path to gaining energy independence.
Thus, 2,850,000,000 extra cars (in the form of these 57 large container ships) are "on the roads" of the world.... all over a desire to not allow $60M dollars worth of well known and easy to implement hardware/technology.
That's 2.85 BILLION cars would be effectively taken off the roads, pollution wise, for ...less than $60 million US dollars.
I personally know this to be 100% true, this reduction of pollutants, to that level. The engines on these ships would also be come more fuel efficient to the tune of being about 15%-30% more efficient and longer lasting....even though their power is producing the brown's gas for the intake on these engines.
I spent $7000 to buy a commercial grade Brown's gas generator in order to play with this technology. So I do know exactly what I'm talking about.
This is how screwed up the world is-- at this time.
Yes, it really is that bad.
Yes, the world could knock out 2.85 billion "units" of individual vehicle pollution in less than 2 months, if they worked at it.
China could implement browns gas production (for adding into the air intake mixture) at each coal fired plant....... and be almost entirely free of pollution in less than a year.
The United states could be 100% energy independent with all the coal shale it has and use it in the extreme, until the cows come home....and be 100% pollution free..IF they used brown's gas on the air intakes of all the coal fired electricity production plants in the US. We're talking about all energy production expanding at a usage rate of maybe 10-20% per year, for the next 100 years and STILL be 100% pollution free in the production of that electricity. This could likely be implemented all across the US for less than $1B for the Brown's gas production hardware, if not 5-10x less money spent. These brown's gas production devices are excruciatingly simple to build, operate... and maintain.
These things have been known for years.
Do you see any action in these areas?
NO.
But you get hammered into a corner...don't you? Hhhmmm? So what do you think about that?
Are you angry now? You should be.