By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-03 01:54:16 | Updated at 2024-12-04 08:23:19
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Climate solution: Sails make a comeback in shipping, to dent its huge carbon footprint
The Associated Press ^ | December 2, 2024 | BY JOHN LEICESTER
Posted on 12/02/2024 5:50:31 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he’d be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind’s clean energy to transport goods across the Atlantic.
But the hit to Jourdan’s pay is buying him peace of mind. When his 3-year-old son, Marcel, grows up, the burly French mariner wants to be able to explain what he did to make a dent in the the shipping industry’s huge carbon footprint.
The international merchant fleet of more than 100,000 ships transports more than 80% of global trade. But it’s also responsible for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without a quick switch from dirty fuels to cleaner energies, its pollution is forecast to soar.
Mariners pushing for wind power say investors used to view them as something of a joke. But as they pioneer a comeback for sail-powered cargo ships, they’re having the last laugh.
“It’s our job to prove that it’s possible,” Jourdan said aboard the new Grain de Sail II cargo carrier as it sailed off the French port of Saint-Malo one recent autumn day.
“For me, it’s just logical, you know?” he said. “Like the petrol is limited quantity and the wind is not.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1200 BC solution to a 21st Century hoax.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Following long standing tradition I didn’t read the article. But I would bet this wind powered ship has back up engines just in case the wind isn’t blowing.
2 posted on 12/02/2024 5:53:56 PM PST by DouglasKC
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He must have forgotten what plants use to create oxygen in our atmosphere.
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