Seems the retro fad continues - sail power (2026 Update)

No it isn't, with most of them there is no JIT with those.

That's wrong too. more slow carriers cost more.

That's why the bulk mineral carriers are so f****ng large.

No possibility of that.

Which was the point I was making.

You are not keeping up with the thread.

And even with bulk carriers there just isnt enough area.

They don't have enough area to be useful.

Precsiely Already down below 10% of the accident radiation levels.

Chernobyl is not a long lived nor a radioactive isotope It is a place. in Ukraine

No it wasnt, you ignorantly claimed that a continuous supply is needed.

The reality is that they all use a very lumpy supply with stockpiles to spread out the lumpy deliverys at both ends.

Thats what those f****ng great tanks are there for with fossil fuels and massive great piles with other stuff like coal, minerals etc.

Yes I am, I have read every single post in it.

Slow carriers means more ships used and so costs more for the customer.

They could make them hybrid :-)

But still wouldnt have enough area to be worth the stupid cost of getting them out of the way when loading and unloading the bulk freight.

What they need is Carter the Farter.

When the wind wouldn't blow and the ship wouldn't go, they'd get Carter the Farter would start 'er!

We even use aliphatic hydrocarbons from oil to synthesise aromatic species industrially - and we could no doubt use plant lipids if we had to.

Now go and see how much single-use non-recyclable oil-derived plastics the NHS uses every year. And I don't just mean 'disposable gloves and aprons', I mean all the highly specialised plastics.

Anyone who thinks that we can 'just replace them from other sources' is either completely mad, clueless or a Greenwash/Limp dem voter.

'JUST STOP OIL' = 'JUST STOP THE NHS'

Oil as a raw material is not the same as oil used as a fuel.

Duh.

I think you are simply mistaken in thinking that any common plastics rely on chemicals that are only obtainable from oil. Name one?

I think you can synthesise a lot from another feedstock, but the process engineering has obviously been optimised for oil. If using another feedstock it's one thing to do in the lab and another to do economically at industrial scale.

With oil being so useful for making all kinds of things, it's a shame we're wasting so much of it on heating and transport.

Theo

Renewables made up >64% of the grids capacity when I checked a few hours ago.

Solar is about 12% efficient measured over a year, wind does better at 36%.

Quoting renewables’ random peaks merely points up the issues of grid stability and their costs of backup.

Yes. Of all the problems of dwindling oil supply, its loss as a chemical feedstock is trivial to the point of irrelevancy