Cabotage acts are sabotage for maritime decarbonization. Well, that rhymes, but what does it mean? What is cabotage and why are Europe and the USA more impacted than Asia? It’s a tangled tale and we have to go back over a hundred years to unravel the story and its implications. … [continued]
Why wait for alternative fuels? Norsepower is scaling up its plans for bringing wind power back to the cargo shipping industry.
Ports will be much quieter, much less polluted, much less of a greenhouse gas emitter, and much more efficient. Everyone will be better off at the end of this process. Well, except for the people who invested heavily in hydrogen for energy.
The other day I had the opportunity to talk with a few hundred mostly Australian participants in a Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Over 600 signed up, … [continued]
There are a lot of people trying to make wind energy a thing for cargo ships again. I’ve been looking at purported solutions on and off for at least a decade. Few of the them appear to make much sense in context of the shipping industry. Many appear to be … [continued]
A new cargo ship will use 100% wind energy to ferry goods between Europe and the US, without the carbon baggage.
In sales pitches for methanol and ammonia for maritime fuels, the numbers don’t add up, and the omissions are glaring.
Wind power is attracting more heavy hitters in the global shipping industry, including Sea-Cargo and Sumitomo.
The number of new VLCCs to be delivered in 2024? Zero. The number to be delivered in 2025? One.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve reached the end of my first set of scenarios for marine decarbonization through 2100. My bets are on batteries for all inland and two-thirds of short-sea shipping, and biofuels for the rest. It took me years to work through the aspects of synthetic … [continued]
