Of course. They wash the coal first.
http://www.china-tours-online.com/2011/10/panning-people-in-coal-field.html
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Yes Japan is planning to build 22 new, efficient coal fired power plants:
Yes “Clean Coal” technology will be employed,
They are also planning to shut down 100 old and inefficient plants:
Wartsila is looking at Ammonia as a fuel for it’s engines:
https://www.wartsila.com/twentyfour7/innovation/successful-tests-pave-the-way-for-ammonia-as-a-future-marine-fuel#:~:text=Successful%20tests%20pave%20the%20way%20for%20ammonia%20as%20a%20future%20marine%20fuel,-Wärtsilä’s%20recent%20experiments&text=Ammonia%20can%20be%20created%20with,a%20cleaner%20and%20sustainable%20world.
PS> Ammonia can also be used to power fuel cells.
What does “Zero Emission” really mean for the shipping industry?:
Is it just me or I just find it hard to swallow that the worst industry is going to pass all others and be zero emissions.
It could be “Only you”.
Not many people are a negative to everything as you.
I think the 2 sides of this argument are dreamland and reality
I fully expect you to post this headline one day…
By 2050 ships will float across the world on negative gravity machine and pushed by solar winds so they meet their zero emissions target
Aren’t they already doing that in Singapore?
Shippers and shipowners share costs of using Biofuel yo reduce GHG emission:
Isn’t that a kind of Mexican soup?
very hard to get anyone to define what biofuel is and what its carbon footprint actually is
Hyundai has obtained class approval in principle for Ammonia fueled ships:
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/hyundai-mipo-gets-approval-for-ammonia-fueled-ships-from-lloyds-register/
While others are looking at Hydrogen as the future fuel for ships:
Maersk Drilling has a different idea of how to reach the goal of “Zero Emission”:
Even Del Monte is in on the act, with 6 new fuel efficient vessels for cooler container in the making;
The first ship, M/V Del Monte Gold, has already left the yard and presently passing through the Panama Canal:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:6181068/mmsi:356211000/imo:9849643/vessel:DEL_MONTE_GOLD
LNG is NOT the future marine fuel but a blind track according to the latest IMO study:
May meet the present requirement for SOX and NOX reduction, but not a carbon free solution.
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all true and was never a secret but just seems more subterfuge from the shipping industry over a long period of time to do nothing and have excuses for why they have done very little?
I feel like with maritime there is a big push to conflate particulates and SOx/NOx with “pollution” in general. Any clean low-sulfur hydrocarbon is going to be an improvement in that regard, especially compared to pre-2020 HFO, but if GLOBAL climate change is the issue and not localized smog, you are talking CO2 and just can’t use a fossil fuel period. I see the most environmentalist people imaginable who still get this wrong and say “one ship pollutes more than 50 million cars” because they are talking about SOx only and don’t understand that ships are comparatively quite green due to the efficiency per ton-mile.
yes ton per mile they beat everything but if you live near a port your air quality is horrendous.
LPG would fix that but not the Co2 issue if that is the issue?
Yeah exactly. Best for the world out of any fossil option but sure not a good neighbor.