World's Biggest Polluters R Ships

Massive cruise liners 'each spew out as much sulphurous emissions gas per day as 376 MILLION cars' it is revealed as experts call for action on the pollution they cause in port cities
By Charlie Moore For Mailonline

"Royal Caribbean, who own the world's largest cruise ship, has admitted that at full power each of its 16-cylinder Wartsila engines will burn 1,147 gallons of fuel an hour - about 80,000 per day - of some of the world's most harmful diesel fuel."

My Comments About The Article AboveYeah OK we like cruising as much as anyone, but really these ships and others sure do suck down a lot of fossil fuel. The oil they use is thicker then used motor oil. They burn on the open ocean what may be described as high sulphur diesel fuel oil which they aren't allowed to burn while in port. "Even when they burn low sulphur fuel, it's 100 times worse than road diesel." according to the article.

However these latest cruise ships are far more fuel efficient and less polluting then those built previously and a hellva lot less polluting then the 50,420 merchant ships plying the world's oceans. Take for example the cargo ship the "Emma Mærsk". It alone can burn up to 3,600 US gallons per hour !

A fully loaded jet by contrast can burn up to 700 gallons per hour of kerosene like fuel. To achieve flight level after take off requires about one year's worth of fuel consumed by the average passenger vehicle. The average number of planes in the air over the United States at any given time is around 5,000.

Point is..
     Between ships and planes there's an awful lot of sometimes unnecessary pollution going on.

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BTW:
Recycling-- Do you know why service garages accept used motor oil?
Because they use it to heat their service areas in the winter.