Small ocean currents offer big savings for shipping
Up to 20% of fuel burnt by ships, and emissions generated could be saved by making route changes which consider small ocean currents.
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Up to 20% of fuel burnt by ships, and emissions generated could be saved by making route changes which consider small ocean currents.
“It’s a bit rough tod–”. Shane Keating suddenly turns around to look through the porthole behind him. “Woah! That was a big one!” An Associate Professor in Oceanography at the University of New South Wales, Keating is talking to me from the RV Investigator as it sails through heavy seas, roughly 700 kilometres east of Sydney. He brings his camera closer to the porthole for me to see outside.
Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station.As the world war...
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