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		athrowaway3z 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min... The globe looks radically different when presented in transport-energy-cost-distance. Bulk container ships are crazy efficient. It makes more energy sense for a nation like France to trade with the eastern US than it does with Hungary.

MagicMoonlight 42 days ago [–]

They’re crazy efficient because they use bunker fuel and have zero legal requirements because they all flag up as a country with no laws.

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