09-07-2013, 07:01pm
(09-07-2013, 06:39pm)jamdonut Wrote: Sorta makes you realise with all these ships in the world how reliant we are on fossil fuels and how we complain when we fill up our cars and bikes. We must have a lot of reserves to keep this society going.For that ship it works out to 38 200l drums of heavy fuel every hour.
The figures are scary!
And the volume of exhaust gases coming out the funnel makes a joke out of the controls we put on our car (and bike) emissions!
But there's still no better way to move 200,000 tonnes of cargo around the world, so I guess they're here to stay (keeps me in a job, too!).