{"id":34833,"date":"2025-06-13T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/?p=34833"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:02:21","slug":"the-unseen-cost-of-clean-maritime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/the-unseen-cost-of-clean-maritime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unseen Cost of Clean Maritime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Unseen Not-Mentioned Carbon Footprint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Claims of zero-emission maritime by midcentury sound more like wishful thinking than reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global push for net zero conceals a significant paradox: the immense, often-ignored carbon footprint from manufacturing \u201cgreen\u201d technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar panels, windmills and batteries don\u2019t appear from nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not saying this as an activist. I’m all for technical innovations and all the people that make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I believe \u201cnet-zero\u201d is a misleading concept and doesn’t address the full picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why I think we need to move away from terms like \u201cemission-free\u201d and be more honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saying something like: \u201cWe\u2019ve worked hard to significantly reduce CO\u2082 emissions\u201d\u2014because that\u2019s a goal people can trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until we account for their entire<\/strong> lifecycle emissions, \u201cnet zero\u201d remains a dangerously incomplete and potentially misleading environmental goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago I wrote this article: Why an Electric Outboard Is Not the Better Choice Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My opinion hasn’t changed since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(zoom in on the infographic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Unseen Not-Mentioned Carbon Footprint Claims of zero-emission maritime by midcentury sound more like wishful thinking than reality. The global push for net zero conceals a significant paradox: the immense, often-ignored carbon footprint from manufacturing \u201cgreen\u201d technology. Solar panels, windmills and batteries don\u2019t appear from nowhere. I\u2019m not saying this as an activist. I’m all for technical innovations and all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[371,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric","category-article"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}