Posted on 07/10/2017 7:54:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Cruise ships can emit as much particulate matter as a million cars every day and the air quality on deck can be as bad as the world’s most polluted cities, according to a new investigation.
An undercover investigation by the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 television station has revealed the shocking levels of pollution found on board some cruise ships.
Channel 4’s Dispatches program sent its investigators onto P&O Cruises’ 250-meter-long Oceana vessel, which can carry more than 2,000 passengers.
The program focused on monitoring ultra-fine particles in the air around the vessel, and the investigation showed that just one ship can emit the same amount of particulate matter in one day as one million cars. […]
Cruise ships typically use heavy fuel oil in their engines, a residual product that is left over after petrol and diesel have been produced. It has very high sulfur content, but is more cost-effective than other fuels.
P&O responded to the program’s findings by highlighting that it has reduced its fuel consumption by 28% since 2005 and that the company slashed CO2 emissions by 20% in 2014 alone. …
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We are doomed or the study is a fraud.
298 ships times 1 million cars per day. We should be choking on thick smog.
Total worldwide cruise capacity at the end of 2015 will be 486,385 passengers (a 7.3% increase over 2014) and 298 ships
http://www.cruisemarketwatch.com/capacity/
“A million cars? That’s seriously ridiculous exaggeration.”
A million electric cars?
No they want the sail in use if it was good enough for Eric the Red we should use it too.
idiots at best
Evidently, modern cars produce very little air pollution if it takes that many.
Which would roughly equal the amount of cars running in the USA daily. 298 million cars for a population of 320 million. I’m a little high on the number but I think we are good!
More proof that liberalism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is enjoying themselves.
On average, cruise ships use 140-150 tons of fuel per day. Source: How Much Fuel Does a Cruise Ship Use?
| Measurement & Units | Value |
|---|---|
| Number cars | 1,000,000 |
| Miles per year avg | 13,000 |
| Miles per day avg | 36 |
| Miles per gallon avg | 28 |
| Gallons per day per car | 1.29 |
| Gallons per day 1M cars | 1,290,000 |
| Gasoline density lb/gal | 6.07 |
| Gasoline consumption lb/day | 7,830,000 |
| Gasoline consumption ton/day | 3,915 |
| Particulate Emissions Ratio, Ship Diesel:Car ICE | 25 |
| Equivalent Ship Diesel FO Consumption ton/day | 157 |
| Ship Diesel FO Consumption ton/day | 140 - 150 |
(As you can see, I've got too much time on my hands ;>) )
Did they have any figures on those black clouds of smoke over Hamburg this last weekend? To my untrained eye it looked like a lot of particulates.
Good stuff.
That also means that every 60K ton or larger grain, steel bulk carrier, or container vessel on the seas today is also putting out as much “particulate” as 1 million cars.
Hahahahahaha...I was casting about in my brain for the exact wording to use for that quote, but you beat me to it! Nice job...
No, I like it! Keep talking!
Leftist nations, States, even cities can make rules apparently as they already have with commercial freight carriers dictating the amount of pollutants they will tolerate. Those same rules can be applied to cruise vessels if the leftist ruling class deems it so.
If there’s anything to the “hydrocarbons harming the environment” story, it’s probably the huge emissions from transport-category aircraft in the high troposphere/low stratosphere.
Exactly right. That’s why emissions in ports are such a big issue.
I’m more concerned about the raw sewage cruise ships dump in the ocean.
“This is not about the “environment”. This is about leftist hate for anything that gives middle America some enjoyment.”
Bump
This is total nonsense. A MILLION cars? PREPOSTEROUS!
These people have no common sense and no concept of logic.
1,000,000 cars bumper to bumper would stretch 2,500 miles.
Parked bumper to bumper and side to side, they would occupy 3 1/4 Square MILES.
I’ll stand on the deck of a cruise ship (I have many times) and you go stand in the center of 1,000,000 parked running cars (3 1/4 Square MILES of them) and let us see how long each of us survives the pollution. Remember, it should be the same according to “scientists”.
January 1, 2015, N6 oil essentially was banned on Great Lakes shipping. I believe three or four iron ore carriers have been fitted with scrubbers. Many others saw their steam turbines replaced by diesel engines.
The price difference is $1/gallon.
Consider a 1,000 foot ore carrier running from Two Harbors, MN to Gary IN. 75,000 gallons of fuel consumed every 5 and a half days. The boats make 40 trips a year.
That’s quite a hickey...
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