Buttigieg says U.S. 'green corridors' initiative key to cutting shipping industry emissions

Presumably Buttigieg and his entourage flew to Japan for this photo op and will then fly off to their next one.

Just get on with it. Build viable alternatives and switch to them. At the moment, Hydrogen doesn't even count as it is produced using fossil fuel. Less talk and promises about what will happen several regimes down the line, more innovation and funding for the transition. I doubt I'm the only person sick of hearing promises about 2030 and 2050. Show us the turbines, the solar panels, the storage cells and the reservoirs being built. A politician's promises are worth nothing. What they build is what matters.

The league tables nations need to climb are those of Installed wind power capacity, here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country

And Solar PV capacity by country, here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

More entries on here is also a plan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reservoirs_by_volume

Politicians should worry less about China. It is their own citizens that will go after them if they run out of water or the lights go out. Geopolitical rhetoric and nationalist tub thumbing won't save them. Climate change will put their necks on the line and much sooner than they might think. So they had better get a shift on if they want to save their skins.

Green hydrogen is getting closer every day, many interesting projects are happening.

Buttigieg has been a disaster as Transportation Secretary. He is known for using a lot of "word salad" to sound intellectual, but there is no substance to anything he says. From the photos, looks like he is making "hand salad" with all those meaningless hand gestures. I'm curious, why are there are so many photos of this guy?

Yokohama is the closest major port to North America across the Pacific and is a major regional hub.

And the the best port in the business.

Yokohama Crowned World’s Most Efficient Container Port

https://fullavantenews.com/yokohama-crowned-worlds-most-efficient-container-port/

Take notes Pete. This is how its done.

Russia has a green Corridor through the Arctic. China has the Belt and Road. What is he talking about?

Just get on with it. Build viable alternatives and switch to them. At the moment, Hydrogen doesn't even count as it is produced using fossil fuel.

Nope. It is being produced in Europe from water. That requires a lot of electrical power, which comes from solar, wind and hydroelectric generation. That is true carbon free hydrogen. The Europeans are also producing ammonia that way for use as a motor fuel in ocean going ships. Engines running on these two fuels are being tested now in Japan and Finland by Mitsubishi and Wartsila. The ships that will use them are planned to be underway on revenue generating runs for their owners by the end of this decade.

Russia has a green Corridor through the Arctic. 

No they don't.

Classic case of trying too hard with the PR and staged photos.

As pointed out if he just did his job well that would be more than enough.

OK, let me get this straight. People think the oil industry is going to sit idly by and let this happen? They’re having martinis and laughing. The single largest entity of carbon emissions is a new, monstrous cruise ship.

Three whole percent? Wow.

China is building a new coal-fired plant every week, and we have photo ops about reducing 3% down to what, 2.87% in the next 40 years? Ha!

Green hydrogen accounted for 0.04% of all hydrogen fuel produced in 2021. Hydrogen is still a dirty fuel. Unless something radical happens, it will be dirty for a very long time and thus not worth considering.

Green hydrogen accounted for 0.04% of all hydrogen fuel produced in 2021. Hydrogen is still a dirty fuel. Unless something radical happens, it will be dirty for a very long time and thus not worth considering.

Something radical as you put it is happening thanks to the International Maritime Organization, several major shipping lines, Warstsila, Mitsubishi and some European governments. Prototype plants are making both hydrogen and ammonia as motor fuels for ocean going ships using only wind power, solar power or hydroelectric power. The new plants are being scaled to be profitable and have sufficient output knowing there will be periods of no production due to lack of power. Similar infrastructure is in the advanced planning stages for Louisiana.

OK, let me get this straight. People think the oil industry is going to sit idly by and let this happen? They’re having martinis and laughing. The single largest entity of carbon emissions is a new, monstrous cruise ship.

The laugh is on you :)

https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/world-s-first-liquid-hydrogen-fuel-cell-cruise-ship-planned-for-norway-s-fjords/2-1-749070

https://safety4sea.com/worlds-first-oceangoing-hydrogen-powered-cruise-ship-under-development/

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-cruise-ship-concept-unveiled/

Cargo ships emit a lot of pollution while they are running their engines, whatever their fuel, while in port. The Port of Los Angeles built the infrastructure so that ships docked in harbor can, and must, be hooked to the local electrical grid for their power. As the largest port by volume in the USA, Los Angeles has taken the initiative, once again, to reduce emissions.

1 liter of compressed H2 has only 1/6 the energy of a liter of gasoline. Are you going to attach a zeppelin to the back of your car to drive to Grandma's house?

There are plenty of other problems, mostly economic.

Other facilities in Yokohama allow a ship that is idling at the port to be powered electronically instead of burning heavily polluting marine fuel oil.

What are they trying to say here? That a ship in port is connected to shore power rather than running its generators? Like they do in LA according to 1glenn above?

We need more fossil fuels not less. Green energy is a financial scam. Yes ships once in port switch to shore power.

Couldn't have said it better.

We need more fossil fuels not less. Green energy is a financial scam. Yes ships once in port switch to shore power.

Actually, no they don't. There are experiments with tying ships to shore power while in port at a wharf, but only a small number of US west coast ports are doing this. In all the rest of the world, and everywhere when the ships are at anchor, they are running a separate set of diesel generators to make electrical power.

It is galling to me because US Navy ships have used shore power in port since the earliest days of the age of steam but most commercial ships are not equipped to hook up to shore power and there in no international standard for the connections or the power to be supplied. The US power is 120 volts / 60 Hz. Europe and most of Asia is 220-240 volts / 50 Hz. No idea what shipboard equipment is ok on 60 Hz power (assuming the correct voltage can be delivered) and what isn't. Would there have to be a phase shifter included in the shore power supply for ships docking in the US? Would a foreign nation have 120/60 available for US flagged ships? Not so easy, is it.