(L-R) Faris Lovejoy (College ’27), Eugenio Merloni (College ’24), Lavinia Cavalet (College ’25), Vaani Kapoor (College ’27), Ari Pribadi, Senior Managing Director of Marathon Capital (Photo by Jean Lachat)

Team POS approached this project very schematically, trying to analyze each of the market trends in the industry and weighing the pros and cons of each trend. They then noticed a pattern in the market trends being engine-replacement technologies and efficiency technologies, hence why they categorized the market trends into power and efficiency solutions. The team divided up these solutions and read research papers and looked into companies which exist in each area, attempting to determine the costs and benefits of each of the viable solutions. After researching they realized that nuclear was the best option but they were concerned that it would be unimplementable and too ambitious to have 100% of their ships go nuclear by 2040, so they needed to come up with a backup and way to account for technological delays. After researching, POS approached the most difficult part of their project, coming up with a solution which combines nuclear technologies with pre-existing market technologies, while also ensuring that these technologies could be installed in a manner through which the company loses the least profits. Hence, after much debate, they came up with our phased out solution which attempts to momentarily take ships out of commission and decarbonize the fleet by 2040 in the most economical way possible.

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