This is an extraordinary claim. Obviously some of the prior costs are due to paperwork, but really? https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/air-transpo...
That doesn't break it down in the same way - what percentage of "labor" is "administrative overhead" for example.
Everyone has to do paperwork, but is that 'admin overhead' it an essential part of safety culture? I'm struggling to see where the overhead is that significant.
It is a lot more obvious in other fields -- medicine and highly regulated/litigious professions.
Compare the red/black line on the ship's hull and the water line. Under normal conditions, the red/black line is parallel to the water across the length of the ship: https://www.google.com/search?q=evergreen+ever+given&source=... In this picture of the ship stuck in the Suez, the red/black line appears to tilt noticeably upwards towards the bow: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1374480496789393412 If this isn'…
I’m not a ship engineer but I do know that ships are not built to be suspended from the ends. I guess in the worst case the hull breaks which would mean the canal to be blocked for quite a while.
Ships actually are designed to be suspended from the ends. Ocean going vessels are going to experience wave crests which can be any length apart, including the full length of the ship.
Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
You forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
Well, you see, the names I listed above are all actual ones used by Capcom.
Same. I had this idea of making a special pi-hole variation where instead of blocking the domains, it actually redirects me to a page of my own creation that explains that the given domain was blocked by me due to [intrusive popups, hiding the article behind a click so it can trigger some JS, whatever other dark patterns]. It's hard to manually remember all the domains to not bother clicking links to :)
The easiest way to achieve this on a desktop browser (or Firefox for Android) may be to add custom, named filter lists to uBlock Origin. The name will show up on the block page ("Found in: $LIST_NAME") It's not network-wide, but at least you can host your lists on the web to keep them up to date across your devices (and to share your efforts with others!).
Ah right, I want something network-wide and not requiring installation of software on any machine, etc. I do appreciate the tip, though! :)
Super-ships emit ~5g_Co2/Ton/km on average[1], while railway is 2-35g, air transport is 700-3000g and truck transport is 100-2000g. Surprisingly, the bigger the boat the more effective. We tend to have a bias against larger machines, but often they can be the cleanest in proportion. [1] https://www.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/assets/documents/86...
Some things just work best at scale - rockets that have to launch from Earths gravity well apparently do as well: https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(raketa) And it makes sense if you think about it - as you scale up, the ammount of fuel you can carry goes up roghly by cube while structure mass, forming a shell effectively arround the fuel, goes up by square of size of the rocket. Similar things for air resista…
For pressure vessels like rockets, the mass of the structure and the mass of the fuel scale together as far as square-cube reasoning goes. The surface area of the structure scales with the square while the volume of the fuel scales with the cube, but the thickness of the cylinder walls must also increase, so you end up with cube vs cube.
It was caused by a power blackout meaning no-one was in control of the ship. It’s possible someone pulled a breaker or something but I don’t know how easy that would be to do in a way that would not look like sabotage.
This sounds like a great action/drama film.
I've been thinking about this for a Shadowrun (cyberpunk RPG) adventure. It's amazing how much impact a small mishap can have.
Genuine question: why "EVER GIVEN" when "EVERGREEN" is written on the side of the ship? Someone with insider knowledge: is this a typo or similar error? How does it happen and proliferate without being corrected?
Hehehe okay, I'll take the downvote and repeated comments :) Serves me right for not thinking twice! Genuinely didn't occur to me that it might be something other than a typo that went rogue. Ho hum.
This is a big ship. There's no nearby facility to unload or service it. Its not something you bring tools in your pickup truck to solve the problem. If its not immediately resolvable with the ships own facilities, then its not clear it can be solved in less than a-long-time. Maybe years? Its 200 million pounds. It holds 20,000 units. To unload it would take building a facility on-site. And maybe a rail line to carry…
I don't think unloading it is an option. I wonder if they will get ships to push it. Sounds like they are digging too.
Maybe "unloading" by dragging some of the containers off the ship. Either into the sea, or on land. Yes, it would be very messy: destroy some goods, damage the ship. But it might still be cheaper than the alternatives.
One of the main roads near where I live is a Roman road. It's fascinating that the new buildings being built along it have their design constrained, in some way, by a decision made 2000 years ago.
2000 years? Think about how frequently we're hampered by limitations set 13.8 billion years ago...