Large ships working on the deep seas need new fuels. The bunker fuels they use today - what are residual fuels and refined fuels - are all hydrocarbons which the industry needs to be weaned off as they emit greenhouse gases which while being just over 2% of the global amount of man-made GHGs is likely to be much bigger a percentage as other industries and society reduce their emissions and ship numbers grow as global trade and equity increase.

The politics of decarbonisation are of course difficult to move around (lobby groups tend to have loud voices) but one point that everyone agrees on is there's no time to wait.

This podcast is fuel and technology agnostics, I just enjoy finding out how the ocean industries are set to sustainably evolve. The decarbonisation (or carbon emission intensity - even the phrases are not agreed on) of deep sea international shipping seems to be be working towards to LNG and then to ammonia and methanol, both capable of being produced by hydrocarbons, both being able to be produced by more renewable means. One company aiming to do that is Liquid Wind in Sweden. The company is set to start building build its first production facility to make e-methanol this year.

So Craig Eason caught up with Claes Fredriksson, Liquid Wind's founder and CEO to get his story and where he thinks Liquid Wind will fit into the mix.

Transcript at the following link

https://fathom.world/aronnax-emethanol-for-shipping-the-story-of-liquid-wind/

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