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Each mother ship works with four or five attack vessels, which are not unlike WWII PT boats, but are made of light-weight metal or composite instead of wood. Each of these has to run on two or more turbo diesels which put out 480 HP at 3,000 PRM. These are not engines which are likely to be used on any of the hijacked ships so they are probably one of the largest direct costs the pirates have. If the pirates operate 50 raiding boat it requires 100 engines. These cost as much as $15,000 each...
...large national navies including the US are policing the shipping channels to cut down piracy, the rate at which the pirates can grab prey is picked up fairly fast. The Somali pirates could take over between 80 and 120 vessels this year, and the figure is conservative. That would put their gross revenue as high as $200 million...
...broad outlines, the prospective policy - for which a number of proposals have been put forward in Congress - would offer Americans cash rebates of up to several thousand dollars if they traded in an old, inefficient car for a new, greener one. The ailing U.S. automakers would receive a shot in the arm - potentially worth up to 2 million additional sales a year - while polluting cars would be taken off the road and replaced with more efficient ones. (All cash-for-clunkers programs require the old cars to be scrapped rather than resold.) "There are significant environmental advantages and substantive benefits...
...Notwithstanding the fact that the "buy American" provision in Sutton's bill - which has the support of U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers union - might violate free-trade agreements if the bill is ever passed, greens are more worried about its extremely low standards. Refusing to put a mileage requirement on clunkers means that even relatively efficient cars could be traded in, provided they're at least a decade old. And putting the minimum standard for new cars at 27 m.p.g. means that more than half the cars already in the U.S. fleet would qualify, since the existing federal...
...Environmental Studies, completing a documentary on South African wine farms for her thesis. “I wanted to make documentaries,” she said. “I didn’t take creative writing at all... I did take English 10a freshman year and that put me off English.” After working for the public television documentary program, “NOW with Bill Moyers,” Dovey moved back to South Africa. Dovey found that the resources in Cape Town, however, couldn’t stack up to Harvard’s well...