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https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea-transport/the-first-all-electric-tugboat-in-the-us-is-about-to-launch>
"With their roaring diesel engines, tugboats push, pull and guide much larger
vessels into port and out to sea. They are small but mighty — and incredibly
dirty, spewing huge amounts of toxic exhaust and planet-warming emissions every
year.
Now, however, the humble harbor craft is going electric.
America’s first fully battery-powered tugboat recently docked at the Port of
San Diego, where officials are working to decarbonize not just tugs but also
diesel cranes and trucks. The electric tug was built over three years at an
Alabama shipyard, then moved through the Panama Canal before arriving in
Southern California earlier this spring.
“We’re ecstatic,” Frank Urtasun, the port’s chairman, told
Canary Media.
“This electric tugboat is a real game-changer that I think will have
ramifications across the country.”
The 82-foot-long vessel is set to begin operating within the coming weeks, as
soon as the shoreside charging infrastructure is completed, according to
Crowley. The Florida-based company owns and operates the electric boat — named
“eWolf” in honor of Crowley’s first tug, the early 1900s Seawolf — and
everything that’s needed to keep it running.
The eWolf is launching as ports and cities around the world are pushing to
decarbonize their industrial waterfronts.
Globally, the cargo-shipping sector accounts for around 3 percent of total
greenhouse gas emissions every year. While giant, oil-guzzling freighters tend
to draw more public scrutiny for their large environmental impact, many
thousands of smaller vessels and workboats are also major sources of both
carbon emissions and local pollution."
Via
What Could Go Right? One Uninterrupted Decline:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/global-child-mortality-declines/
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*** Xanni ***
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
