Environment

Authored by Zainab Calcuttawala via OilPrice.com,

Tesla is not the only one bringing electric engines to cargo transport.

China just launched its first all-electric cargo ship, which will travel 50 miles at a top speed of 8 miles per hour on a single charge. Though it will be able to carry 2,200 tons of cargo with every haul, that battery capacity is barely enough to fulfill any transatlantic shipments. It will take just two hours to recharge, which is about as much time the vessel needs to unload at a destination.

At least four devastating wildfires continued to ravage Southern California from Ventura County south to Los Angeles, as the stifling smoke and flames drove tens of thousands of people living in the Los Angeles area from their homes in an eerie replay of the fires that decimated Northern California’s wine country two months ago.

Large numbers of North Korean fishing boats are washing up along the Japanese coast, some of which have contained decaying corpses.

Winds and water currents push dozens of boats onto Japan's northern coasts annually. Rickety North Korean fishing boats are particularly vulnerable because they lack the sturdiness and equipment to return home.

 

 

But the alarming pace over the past few weeks has prompted Japanese authorities to step up patrols.

While many people would argue that driving on LA roads is "like hell" on a good day, today is a very bad day as wildfires and shut the shockingly busy 405 Freeway in both directions...

BREAKING: All lanes of the 405 are shut down. This will have a MAJOR impact on so many other freeways/roads! #NBCLA https://t.co/hUabdEIZnn

— Rick Montanez (@RickNBCLA) December 6, 2017

This is what drivers are facing...

In what sounds like a replay of the devastating fires that killed dozens of people and torched a broad swath of California wine country this past summer, at least five discrete fires barreled across Southern California with extreme speed, torching more than 65,000 acres as firefighters struggled to contain the simultaneous infernos.