I was very disappointed to learn recently that the new aircraft carriers here in the UK are designed to last for 50 years and are DIESEL powered.
That kind of makes a mockery of the politicians telling us diesel cars are bad. Most lorries, busses, wagons and many trains are already diesel.
I think it was something like a million gallons of diesel needed per trip. Burning a gallon of diesel produces approx 10kg of carbon dioxide. So thats 10 million kilograms per trip, and according to ChatGPT about 3 million gallons (30 million kilograms of carbon dioxide) per year, times this by 50 years, times by 2 boats (sorry ships), and thats 3000 million kilograms of carbon dioxide just from these two ships.
Why weren’t they nuclear?
While they are still making decisions like this one:-
- Its clear the climate is not a priority.
- Politicians tell us that diesel is bad, how can it be if they are still making new ships that will burn diesel for the next 50 years?
- I’m not going to bother trying to be any greener than I am, what difference can any of us really make? Apart from plant a few trees? Does that even help if they are cutting them down faster than we plant them?