Zero emission ships by 2030?

[ombugge]

Things are happening fast and furious at SMM in Hamburg:

Shipyard selected for the world’s first zero-emission cruise ship - Splash247

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SAL Heavy Lift orders carbon-neutral heavy lift project fleet

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Urging ships to use shore power while in port to reduce GHG emission and noise has been all the rage for some time.
Until it got too hot that is:

California suspends shore power rules for ships due to heat wave

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As requirement for shore power use in ports around the world gets more wide spread more ships gets prepared for it and more ports are able to offer supplies at their wharfs.

But what about when the shops are at anchor within the ports?
No worries, power barges can be brought alongside to supply power generated from green hydrogen:

TECO 2030 displays concept power barge - Splash247

PS> Singapore will need a few of those:

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European shipowners today welcome the EU’s proposed Net-Zero Industry Act, but with conditions:
https://www.ecsa.eu/news/net-zero-industry-act-must-recognise-strategic-role-shipping-europes-security

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Zero emission Coastal Express vessels on the Norwegian coast by 2030 is the aim:

Sea Zero

The Sea Zero project aims to enable zero-emission passenger and freight transport along the coast by 2030, through developing and demonstrating emission-free ships for Hurtigruten Norway. In order to achieve this goal, combinations of various measures must be considered both in terms of energy efficiency (ship design and operation) and energy supply (fuel and emissions). In addition, the application of certain technologies will require the development of port infrastructure (e.g. charging).

Some of these technologies are relatively mature, but still need R&D for scaling up, maritime adaptation and optimization. Other technologies are immature and require more fundamental research. The project consists of industry players and R&D institutions with expertise and products/services in the technology areas that are considered most critical to succeeding in the ambition.

Source: Hurtigruten
Partnere i Sea Zero-prosjektet:

• Hurtigruten Norway
• SINTEF
• Cavotec SA
• VARD
• Brunvoll
• Plug
• Corvus Energy
• DNV
• Sustainable Energy Catapult
• Teknotherm
• Jotun
• Sjøfartsdirektoratet
• Bergen Havn
• Norske Havner

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The second of Hurtigruten’s ships complete hybridization and return to the Coastal Express Service:

Hurtigruten Norge med nytt hybridskip i rute langs norskekysten

MS Kong Harald, built in 1993, has now undergone a complete technical upgrade, with state-of-the-art technology designed to reduce emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides (NOx). The ship’s interior, both cabins and common areas, has been completely renovated in 2016 and 2023.

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French firm orders five ‘zero carbon’ boxships in South Korea  - Splash247

Zéphyr et Borée, compagnie décarbonée née à Nantes

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Hurtigruten planning Zero emission ships on the Coastal Express along the Norwegian coast by 2030:

Hurtigruten-skip skal nå nullutslipp med batteri og seil - SINTEF

Sorry, not available in English yet.

[powerabout]

Wont a zero emission ship have to be built from wood perhaps with trees still growing to absorb carbon as it works?

[ombugge]

Yes that’s a fair dinkum mate.
Maybe with wooden men as crew (they don’t eat meat, nor fart)

[powerabout]

so under what woke system could a ship be zero emission, clearly none
8 tons of Co2 per ton of steel to build it for a start( thats the number the EV industry uses)
On shoring to reduce shipping is the only move that will reduce emissions.

[ombugge]

The “emission free” is about operational emission, not the emission from the manufacturing phase. The same applies for emission free cars, or whatever else claim to be emission free
But then you knew that and only wanted to be funny??

PS> “Emission free” steel production is already a reality in Sweden:
https://greensteelworld.com/hybrit-a-trailblazer-in-steel-industrys-green-revolution

[Lew]

Zero ships by 2030

[powerabout]

7 years away, and we are talking the shipping industry so maybe there will be one or two to make the greenies feel happy but running on technology that doesnt yet exist?

[ombugge]

And the best solution iiiis…(drumroll)?
We don’t know yet:

Mechanical sails? Batteries? Shippers forming ‘green corridors’ to fast-track...

[ombugge]

Net is a weasel word - Splash247

Who let the marketing people loose on a question of science and engineering?
They would be fine doing the jobs they know how to do, but, in the wrong job, they add nothing to the question of slowing the shipping industry’s contribution to man-made global warming, and they are getting badly in the way of any hope of making sense of it. They ‘toil not’, here, but they most certainly do spin.

[spowiednick]

Unintended consequences about which A. C. B has no “efing” idea but keeps yapping on the topic for quite a long time.

Scientists warn Earth warming faster than expected — due to reduction in ship...

[johnny.dollar]

It’s not going to happen. A recession and all green ideas are gone. Nobody gives a shit about green when borrowing money costs money.

[powerabout]

and then NASA very quietly said they were shocked when during covid with a measurable reduction in made made Co2 output yet the co2 in the atmosphere continued to climb as if the reduction during covid never happened.