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Daily emissions of cruise ships same as one million cars
EurActiv ^ | 07/10/2017 9:29 | Sam Morgan

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. …

(Excerpt) Read more at euractiv.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: cruiseships; emissions; particulates
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To: Olog-hai
Release the Kraken ...


21 posted on 07/10/2017 8:24:12 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Olog-hai

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/


22 posted on 07/10/2017 8:24:18 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: PGR88

“A million cars? That’s seriously ridiculous exaggeration.”

A million electric cars?


23 posted on 07/10/2017 8:25:28 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Olog-hai

No they want the sail in use if it was good enough for Eric the Red we should use it too.

idiots at best


24 posted on 07/10/2017 9:00:21 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: PGR88
A million cars?

Evidently, modern cars produce very little air pollution if it takes that many.

25 posted on 07/10/2017 9:05:30 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: minnesota_bound

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!


26 posted on 07/10/2017 9:10:49 AM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: Olog-hai

More proof that liberalism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is enjoying themselves.


27 posted on 07/10/2017 9:23:11 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: BradyLS; PGR88; minnesota_bound; smokingfrog
The one million number would seem to be an exaggeration at first, but a simple calculation gets you there. Assume a ship diesel produces 25 times the particulate produced by an automobile gasoline engine. I wouldn't be surprised if it is much worse than that because cars burn highly refined gasoline in optimized combustion processes that produce almost no particulate emissions. Cruise ships burn heavy fuel oil that is left over after the lighter components have been refined out and put out a lot of particulate emissions. Note the article is about particulate emissions, not all emissions.

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 ;>) )

28 posted on 07/10/2017 9:32:37 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

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.


29 posted on 07/10/2017 9:40:48 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


30 posted on 07/10/2017 9:47:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Who will man the oars? the passengers of course!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md709PnrfgQ


31 posted on 07/10/2017 9:55:09 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: MeganC

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...


32 posted on 07/10/2017 9:56:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Donald Trump: Making Liberal Heads Explode 140 Characters At A Time.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No, I like it! Keep talking!


33 posted on 07/10/2017 9:57:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Donald Trump: Making Liberal Heads Explode 140 Characters At A Time.)
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To: ichabod1

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.


34 posted on 07/10/2017 9:58:18 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


35 posted on 07/10/2017 10:01:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: PGR88

Exactly right. That’s why emissions in ports are such a big issue.


36 posted on 07/10/2017 10:01:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

I’m more concerned about the raw sewage cruise ships dump in the ocean.


37 posted on 07/10/2017 10:16:10 AM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“This is not about the “environment”. This is about leftist hate for anything that gives middle America some enjoyment.”

Bump


38 posted on 07/10/2017 10:40:06 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Olog-hai

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”.


39 posted on 07/10/2017 10:57:00 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Olog-hai

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...


40 posted on 07/10/2017 11:09:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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