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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What kind of emissions are we producing to build the ships?

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  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How long are the cargo ships gonna be in service compared to that smartphone of an electric car?

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most of its steel and other metals, so assuming that theyre using electrically pwered smelters most of the emmissions would be in transport and mining equiptment. So probably somewhat comparable, depends on how much rail was used or if it was transportes exclusively via semi.

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    • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most steel is (unfortunately) made in Chinese blast furnaces using coal coke and powered with electricity from coal power plants.

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Im aware, I was giving a best possible circumstances type situation. Still the steel for both is probably sourced from the same factory.

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And all steel is made using coal regardless of where it’s produced, except in experimental processes like HYBRIT.

        theguardian.com/…/green-steel-swedish-company-shi…

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• Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good point, I wasn’t considering production.

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  • nicene@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But don’t worry. The cargo ship sprang into being from nothingness and there were utterly no environmental impacts related to drilling, refining, and transportation of the fuel used to power the ship. So clearly EVs are so much worse for the environment /s

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