The last time I talked Turkey was November 9, 2011 to discuss the country’s first fuel cell car which was unveiled. The fuel cell car runs on sodium borohydride (NaBH4) which is created from the main mineral mined in Turkey, boron. Today I would like to talk Turkey again. Besides being a hotbed for development [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 1 Comment »
Okay, usually I don’t comment on stories in the news that seem too good to be true. A couple of years ago a story broke about a Japanese water car that all of the major media outlets picked up and ran with even through there was no proof that this vehicle worked as claimed. To [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 3 Comments »
ITM Power has done it again. Yesterday I had talked about how they had been given an award for their HFUEL on-demand hydrogen fueling station. Today I want to talk about how ITM Power has teamed up with Cheetah Marine to create a hydrogen-powered catamaran. The new hydrogen fueled Cheetah catamaran is going to be [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 1 Comment »
Rarely do I read an article that makes my blood boil. But this article by the Mail Online has done just that. While a number of us are pushing for hydrogen cars or at least cleaner standards for all cars there are gross polluting ships at sea that are spewing out more sulfur into the [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 5 Comments »
A 100-passenger hydrogen-powered boat in Hamburg, Germany called the Alsterwasser caught fire last year destroying much of the ship but no one was injured. There were no dramatic explosions of hydrogen tanks as one might see in a movie. Nothing happened and the two 50 kW (67 hp) fuel cells powering a 100kW (134 hp) [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | No Comments »
The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom for U. S. citizens and one of the most popular tourist attractions on the Eastern seaboard. So, it’s only fitting that in the spirit of energy independence that a hydrogen hybrid ferryboat be built to take passengers to both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | No Comments »
A hydrogen fuel cell boat has taken a trip from Stockholm to Öregrund, Sweden. The boat was fueled with methanol, a liquid, which ran through a Genesis 20L-D reformer to create hydrogen. Then the hydrogen was pushed through a Cellkraft S-1000 fuel cell to create electricity which powered the outboard electrical motor. Methanol was the [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 1 Comment »
It may not be a Coast Guard cutter, Navy frigate or one of the many large powerboats used by drug runners in the Florida keys or off the coast of California, but this week the ACTA Hidro hydrogen boat was launched at the Star European Championship in Viareggio, Italy (the Tuscany region). The Star European [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats | 3 Comments »
A company called ACTA is acting out, but in a good way and will not be sent to its room for a timeout. What ACTA is doing is pulling out all stops in regard to bringing hydrogen power products to market. In a recent announcement, ACTA said it will be using micro wind turbines and [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats, Hydrogen Fuel Production | No Comments »
At Italy’s international Seatec trade exhibition for yachts, ships and boats, ACTA Energy won the prestigious 2010 Qualitec Technology Award (along with Volkswagen) for their new EL100 Hydrogen Generator. The generator was coupled with a 1 Kw fuel cell that together powered an outboard boat motor. The nautical award was given for the device’s “innovation, [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Boats, Hydrogen Fuel Production | 3 Comments »
