kublikhan
Intermediate Crude
Joined: Nov 06, 2007
Posts: 676
Location: Illinois
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: Kite to pull ship across Atlantic |
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| Twilight wrote: | | Lanthanide wrote: | | If oil supplies drop off like people are predicting they will (at some point), what are all the existing oil tankers going to be doing? I'm sure they can be converted to take other supplies around. |
No, they will be rusting. Converting tankers to carry anything else is prohibitively expensive. I have heard it done with smaller product tankers that ply inland waterways, but ocean-going crude carriers, no way. Always cheaper to build new. |
I thought obsolete tankers often end up getting used as stationary storage tanks, like what they did when single hulled ships were getting phased out and replaced with double hulled ships?
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