What. Crew did they have

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Same issue with boats and airplanes, unless it is just two of you out in or over the middle of the ocean, an uncoordinated AIS/ADS-B driven collision avoidance algorithm is likely to snowball into mass chaos. I am having a vision of every moving thing accidentally herding itself into the corner of the Inner Harbor and the tourists in the pedal boats getting chased by a car carrier :rofl:

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its this technology

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There will be need of oil for a long time to come. I think it will take 500 years to phase it out. Itā€™s not only about the fuel, but about the lubricants, the chemicals, the plastics, textiles, etc.
I see an increase in the use of oil than a decrease.

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forget ais it was just a tool the USA forced on the world so they could identify vessels.
IMO still says it MIGHT be used for collision avoidance in the futureā€¦
If it was integrated with GMDSS so we could all click the screen and make a direct VHF call it would be something ( I have seen this in some VTS control rooms, would be nice to have on board)
Then it should show on screen the 2 vessels talking to each other??

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At what quantity?
If Crude Oil refined into fuels are excluded, the quantity required for other uses are miniscule. (Anybody have a recent figure??)
With the reduced use of plastic envisaged in the future this may be reduced further.

Natural gas is used as feedstock for a lot of petrochemical production.at present. Other sources of feed stock are being investigated and developed.

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You can do this right now if you buy the right stuff. My gear doesnā€™t do this, but if I upgraded my plotter it would.

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are we talking pleasure boat stuff or IMO approved?

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I am not sure about approvals. It is trivially easy to do, I donā€™t know why this isnā€™t widespread.

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IMO approval is essentially a jobs program for mates.

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you mean via NMEA 2000ā€¦not allowed on imo vesselsā€¦

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yes but the gear is different, all the equipment cases are isolated from the power ground as IMO vessels run floating power so each box is a faraday cage.
You must of noticed the earth cables on the outside grounding them?

You would certainly remember if you had to chase a ground fault warning from a UPSā€¦