So BNSF is moving to natgas to power trains. But some think that natural gas engines generate more methane than diesel engines. Experiments are underway at University of West Virginia to try to establish the facts. Every move we make has consequences we may not understand completely. Especially when the environment and sustainability are concerned.
Conflicting Environmental Interests Give Railroads Gas Pains | Chain of Thought.
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An important concept that brings into focus the web of relationships that’s a supply chain. We don’t even know where it reaches. And we are at risk when we don’t. What to do? How to measure if we are succeeding? For some thoughts see this story and follow up the sources.
http://www.scdigest.com/assets/FIRSTTHOUGHTS/13-01-15.php?cid=6737&ctype=content
Posted in institute, Logistics, Supply Chains, Sustainability
This headline caught my eye. In the ocean shipping business we are used to think of ships as big polluters. In fact, here it says that ships account for 25% of all GHG emissions in the EU.
Now here in Chicagoland, we like to barbecue. And last night I attended the Intermodal Association of Chicago monthly dinner, where a significant proportion of the listeners were truckers. We heard that an 18-wheeler with a 2006-2010 clean diesel engine would have to travel 143 miles to generate as much particulates as grilling one hamburger. So I wonder if the Europeans could not get the same results by grilling fewer hamburgers.
Posted in Logistics, Shipping, Supply Chains, Sustainability
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