European environmentalists' insanely stupid plan to decrease shipping pollution(stoopidism)

Environmentalism, as much as anything, represents semi-educated man's yearning to return to a less complicated past, one in which man was dependent upon nature's vagaries rather than master of them. Maybe that explains why European environmentalists have decided that the way to reduce carbon emissions from shipping is to use "giant kites" — or, as humans called them for thousands of years, "sails." This is not a joke. It's absolutely real and highlights just how ludicrous the modern left has become.

There is nothing in the world more charming than a movie or TV series based upon Jane Austen's books. Ang Lee's 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility is so beautifully photographed that every scene makes one want to dive into the screen and share that world. The same is true for the six-part 1995 version of Pride & Prejudice. Could anything be more lovely than that world of polite people in lovely costumes living in exquisite houses with respectful servants, all located within a fresh, green landscape?

What none of these shows quite captures is the reality of life in those days. City streets were ankle-deep in fecal matter and urine from both animals and people. Fifty percent of all children died before the age of five from childhood diseases. This was paired with the fact that up to 50% of all women died in childbirth. Even the smallest cut or bug bite, if it got infected, killed — assuming that physicians didn't first kill the patients with bleeding, mercury treatments, or any other of the murderous potions that doctors favored.

Richard Henry Dana wrote a fascinating classic entitled Two Years Before The Mast; among many other things such as a cracking adventure story, it was a detailed description of life on a commercial sailing ship in what its characters couldn't have known was the waning days of sail in 1835. His son attached an addendum to it written by Dana, entitled "And 24 Years After" that details the mature Dana repeating that epic journey, only this time under steam. Dana makes it exquisitely clear why the changeover took place. The contrast between the two trips is no less dramatic than life and death for the sailors and passengers alike. Highly recommended.

So now the Enviro cult has discovered sail and, heaven help us, dirigibles, declared that we are smarter these days and can do them so much better than before. That last is pure vanity, and some very hard lessons are likely to have to be relearned by people who have scrubbed the inconveniences of the past from memory.

No Worries.. The wind blows all day, and all night, whenever it is needed. Oil and gas will no longer be needed since the wind is permanent. Wait... My Chrystal Ball indicates that there is such a thing called Peak Wind. There is a newly discovered AlGorithm that once enough ships are all using kites at the same time, the total wind power generation will reach Peak Wind, and more trees will be necessary to increase the overall Peakness. The upper levels of Peakness are not yet known, so more and more people will have to send AlGore more money. While any funds directed to AlGore will not be tax deductible, it will make the donor feeeeeeel better.

Modern ship engines are low speed diesels these engines can burn nearly anything flammable that doesn’t put to much particulates in the cylinder rings. These engines can and have been run on methanol which can be made directly from electricity water and CO2 from the air giving that fuel a zero CO2 rating if you use wind,solar,or nuclear power to drive the electrochemical cell. These engines can also burn liquid ammonia here again made from water and nitrogen from the air powering the electrochemical cell with wind solar or nukes will have a zero CO2 rating. Either of these fuels could be made with biomass as the carbon source since the carbon hydrogen ratio is off if you used carbon capture on the excess carbon those fuels would be carbon negative actually pulling carbon out of the atmosphere with less put back by burning the resulting fuel. If the greens really cared they would green light massive nuclear parks like the Canadians do with 8+ reactors all on one site put 16 gigawatt capacity in a site and run a fuel factor off it at 82% electricity to methanol being demonstrated. There’s 56800 btu to a gallon of methanol at 3412 but/kWh at 82% overall is 20 kWh per gallon. 16,000,000 kilowatts used just for fuel would be 800,000 per hour or 19.2 million gal per day. Reactors have a 95% capacity factor in a year you could make 6,657,600,000 gallons of ship fuel from one site. Exxon has a process commercialized today that turns menthol into 100+ octane petrol and 30% propane using two gallons of methanol to make just over a gallon of petrol with the propane as a byproduct of the zeolite 5 catalysts. Nuclear to liquids is the future of humanity the U.S. Navy already knows this they have already made from.seawater and electricity jet fuel they even flew a jet powered drone with the resulting JP8 that fuel would be made by Navy reactors at sea to power drones and jets they have the price at $6 a gallon in series production that’s already cheaper than underway replenishment via tanker ships.

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