The ship is expected to keep burning for weeks.
Actually, it might also sink and release up to 2,000 tons of heavy fuel oil (plus molten plastic, metals etc.) to the Wadden Sea which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as an important biosphere reserve.
Nice! Good to know!
“Of the 3000 cars onboard, 25 are electric and one of those has apparently set light to the whole cargo”
BULLSHIT!
Nobody said so.
But “journalists” nowadays are full of shit and all reporting “currently there’s no proof that some electric car started the fire” (always with #electriccars) - what everyone reads as “yeah, sure the electric car was it!”
meanwhile electric cars are actually LESS likely to start a fire and still nobody in the know has actually claimed electric cars had ANYTHING to do with it.
The article linked in the post says:
A spokesman for the Coast Guard said earlier today that the fire is believed to have started in one of the electric cars. Later in the evening, the Coast Guard said that nothing is yet known about the cause.
So yeah they aren’t sure but it’s coming from the coast guard not the journalist.
Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with “we don’t know anything yet”, but also with “nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don’t know who did”
I’ve not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.
And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I’d guess that’s just repeating headlines too.
My point was: don’t claim “maybe it was electric cars”! because people don’t understand “maybe”
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because it’s impossible that the other 3000 cars filled with an explosive liquid could have ignited the fire. No, it’s definitely impossible, those fuel tanks never leak, and gas vapor never explode
They dont ship cars with gas in them
This particular ship does. It’s essentially a giant ferry that new cars are driven on to, not loaded.
I mean statistics are clear on that one… :D
Just tow it beyond the environment.
Yeah. Just pipe it to /dev/null
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Into another environment?
No. Out of the environment!
So it’s no longer in an environment.
But where will we find a wardrobe big enough to fit the ship through?
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They corrected the number of cars up to 4000 (:
And electric cars to about 500
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…alright, maybe this is a stupid question, but how is it we can’t get 8 ships out there meant to suck up sea water and blast it onto the fire until its out? How is it that waiting for it to burn out our best option here?
Calm your fucking tits david, you can say this shit about any export product to ever exist
Can you? Bet a ship full of bikes wouldn’t burn like that and their ecological impact while in use wouldn’t be the same.
So bikes are transported on little dingies and not giant oiltankers than?
Well oil is transported on oil tankers, not cars. And I bet a ship this size could fit a lot more than 3000 bikes.
