@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {11179},
      author = {Sheasby, J},
      title = {Truth behind Green Alternatives for Future Ship Design},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of INEC},
      address = {2024-11-05},
      number = {GENERAL},
      abstract = {The most recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate  Change) report has outlined the risks and potential impacts  across the globe, highlighting that changes we will face  under climate change will be both difficult to predict and  costly to adapt. As global resource scarcity and the energy  crisis collide under a warming climate, it is critical that  we look at solutions for our Defence assets to be future  ready, one of the most important being how we generate and  store energy for our surface fleets.

With current designs,  new and improved materials used to power and source energy  are being highlighted as successful 'green' alternatives to  oil and gas, including lithium batteries, hydrogen and  methanol. Here we would investigate the impacts involved  with the production of these energy sources, namely the  extraction and manufacture of the materials used, looking  at the possibility that the next new 'environmentally  friendly' and 'green' energy sources could be more damaging  on our environment. Are these sources the final and  sustainable solution they are painted out to be or are they  a temporary fix?

We aim to delve into the impacts from  origin of these 'green' alternatives including  electric  engines and lithium batteries, as well as resources  required for methanol and hydrogen fuel to look at the  impacts of their extraction, their efficiency long term,  how futureproof they are (i.e., have a plenteous supply)  alongside the total carbon cost of these alternatives. This  paper will provide a comparative analysis of the extraction  of these alternatives against extraction of current energy  sources to give a broad understanding and implication of  the environmental impact, shedding light on whether these  alternatives are a sustainable solution for our Defence  assets. This work compliments the aims of the Defence  Operational Energy Strategy, released in 2022.},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/11179},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.24868/11179},
}