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That last sentence, yep. People don't tend to factor in the carbon footprint of building anything they deem environmentally friendly. There's a cost/benefit analysis to be made. A bad idea may actually be worse than what it's replacing, or not beneficial enough to pursue.

Mostly accurate statement

Src: https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2023ch1_en.pdf

Fuckin demolished that snowflake. With climate change

Facts!

Or they'd just ship something else? They'd lose some money and scrap a few ships, but the drop in costs would make it more economical to ship whatever else people want, like lumber and funko pops.

countries that cannot affort the more expensive renewable infrastructure

This presumes renewables are more expensive. But I would posit that a rapid adoption of renewables is going to occur as the cost of operating - say - a thorium powered container ship falls below that of its coal equivalents.

What I would be worried about, long term, is the possibility that advanced technologies further monopolize industries within a handful of early adopter countries. That's not an ecological concern so much as a socio-economic concern.

countries that cannot affort the more expensive renewable infrastructure.

Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuel power.

Would the price crash or would it stabilize at a much higher price as a specialized commodity where the cost of refining no longer benefits from economies of scale and instead only benefits from buyers who are unable or unwilling to use alternatives?

I see no setting where this could go horribly wrong.

Im gonna need some concept art first. for research puposes

Thats exactly how I want my buttplug delivered - shot via a rail gun directly at it's destination.

What if I live in the geographic center of a continent? How do I know which coastline cannon to order from?

Honestly this does sound fucking awesome. It could be sold to the ‘murica crowd.

No, we would have an over capacity of shipping space, forcing the price down sharply. In the short term goods would be much cheaper to ship, reducing in a host of global economic changes- some good but alot not.

The ownership class is not physically capable of doubling our good production overnight to keep them running - long term though its quite probable. Ships will be refitted, a lot scrapped, new orders canceled- but it takes time.

And capitalism is absolutely driven by demand. Any organization that tries to tell people to buy something they aren't interested in will fail. They can alter demand, and yes they control that, but it us demand driven.

Yeah, that worked totally well for the Guano and sodium nitrate businesses.

70% of crude oil ends up gasoline and diesel.

Idk why you're being downvoted. Petrochemicals are used for a bunch of stuff, including plastics manufacturing.

We should switch to renewables as quickly and completely as we can, but it wouldn't eliminate 100% of oil use

Yo, you right