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The first all-electric tugboat in the US is about to launch (www.canarymedia.com)

submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@slrpnk.net

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ships are a lot bigger and we expect a lot more reliability from them than we did in the wind-only era. This makes tugs necessary to enable safe maneuvering in harbor.

Bigger and containerization have the effect of making shipping cheaper on a per-unit basis, which is why they're used.

[–] comradechestnut@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Yes but producing things locally improves resilience and allows for decentralization. Large container shipping is a feature of free market capitalism and highly centralized industries. In a decentralized economy there wouldn't be anywhere near as much demand for container shipping.