So what does that work out to in energy cost?
So do you have numbers for emissions per ton mile for diesel powered merchant ships? And what exempts ships carrying nickel from Canada to Japan from MARPOL Annex VI?
I see no numbers. Define "substantial".
At what location is it "pouring"?
In your opinion.
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What makes you think that mining a tone of nickel ore destroys a ton of environment? Seems to me that if nickel is so all fired horrible then perhaps the local environment is being improved by its removal.
You'd be happier if it was hydrochloric? How much of that sulfuric acid leaves the refinery? I don't want to see "lots" or "too much" or some other bogus appeal to emotion, I want to see a number and a percentage of total sulfuric acid production.
What, exactly, do you think that electroplating has to do with the production of nickel? Yet another irrational appeal to emotion.
Exactly how much sulfur dioxide would that be? Again I want to see a number, not an irrational appeal to emotion.
What percentage of people is "most"? How much acreage has to be devoted to the production of bio-diesel to meet the demand? What are the environmental costs of the production of bio-diesel? How much synthetic fertilizer and how many tons of pesticides have to be applied each year?
Care to compare the pollution numbers from coal fired baseload power plants to those of automotive diesel engines producing the equivalent amount of energy?
Neither is biodiesel.
And where is the end?