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Sadly yeah. But those turbines could run on almost anything, fuel oil is used simply because it’s the cheapest and there are no laws (or very few) saying they can’t. At least they capped the sulfur content rather hard a few years back, so there is some progress.

And it is a situation that could be fixed with legislation and money if there was a will to do so as the tech already mostly exists, and it wouldn’t even necessarily require huge changes on the ships.

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