Towering hundreds of feet over the Port of Oakland, it might look like the Bay Area's biggest vacuum cleaner. And in a sense, it is.
Pollution at Port of Oakland is reduced with a new green technology designed to suck up emissions by California-based company STAX.Towering hundreds of feet over the Port of Oakland, it might look like the Bay Area's biggest vacuum cleaner. And in a sense, it is., is designed to capture the polluting diesel exhaust from container ships and other large vessels that run their engines while berthed at the port.
"They're big vessels. And I would say that, you know, it varies between the vessel size, but it's thousands of cars a day's worth of emissions for sure," Walker adds.And now, new regulations from the California Air Resources Board will require specific oceangoing vessels to reduce their idling emissions roughly 80%, cutting pollution that's become an environmental justice issue for many surrounding neighborhoods, like West Oakland.
To meet those stricter requirements, the Port has already expanded the most popular option, shore power, allowing ships to keep their electricity up and running without using their engines. But depending on how the vessel was built, it can be far trickier than just plugging in an extension cord.
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