Electric Cargo Ship in China...

[Twisted Canuck]

....used to haul coal to electricity generating station.

You can't make this stuff up! Ah, the irony of it all.......

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/c...to-power-plant

[bat119]

The green group gets all flustered about pipelines that might leak yet support a ship that runs on coal generated electricity powered by 1,000 lithium batteries that could end up in the ocean if the ship sinks.

Its a strange world these days.

[Team Anzac]

Lithium Batteries with Lithium mined by child labour, hell of a deal i'd say.

[Selkirk]

Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck

....used to haul coal to electricity generating station.

You can't make this stuff up! Ah, the irony of it all.......

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/c...to-power-plant

In this case they have two readily available, cheap power sources directly at hand (coal & electricity) to run that short-haul bulk cargo ship.

I think they chose well.

Selkirk

[stuckincity]

More Irony

[2000victory]

And how are the batteries recharged...by what source of power to create an electrical recharge.. Or are the batteries discarded -recycled , and new ones installed

[thumper]

^^ Dunno - they're still trying to figure out the instructions!