Posted on February 16th, 2010 by admin
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, [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2009 by hydrokevin
Fuel cell sailboats and motorboats are both making headlines promoting the use of green hydrogen as way to clean up oceans, rivers, lakes and other waterways. I’ve talked about EFOY several times in the past as providing auxiliary power to motor homes and traffic signals. This time on the Pogo2 yacht the EFOY 2200 provided [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by admin
The OSV Viking Lady is a ship of fuels, so to speak, or to be more accurate a ship of fuel cells. As part of the FellowSHIP (Fuel Cells for Low Emissions Ships) project, the OSV Viking Lady was first launched in 2003 and now is close to commercialization for the maritime industry. The FellowSHIP [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2009 by admin
Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York will be recreating Robert Fulton’s historic journey up the Hudson River, but this time with a hydrogen-powered boat. In the early 1800’s Robert Fulton is credited with creating the first steamboat (and submarine). Fulton used a steamboat he called the Clermont to sail up the Hudson [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by admin
The world’s first hydrogen-powered (and obviously wind-powered) yacht, named the Zero CO2 is sailing around the Mediterranean using a fuel cell auxiliary motor. Lots of yachts, I kid you not, use petrol powered motors to maneuver around ports and in times of low wind. The Zero CO2 will be a floating laboratory on a 10-month [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by admin
I’ve talked about hydrogen fuel cell boats many times in the past. But, one I’ve neglected to mention (and thanks to Heinz in Germany for sending this in) is the Hydra 1 fuel cell boat that was launched in the year 2000. Some of the previous fuel cell boats I’ve mentioned include the Duffy Ferryboat [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2008 by admin
Zemships (zero emission ships) will be cruising Alster Lake near Hamburg, Germany this summer. Almost a year ago, I had talked about the $6.7 million Zemships project, which is a hydrogen fuel cell ferryboat that will carry 100-passengers across the lake. The Zemship is a hybrid vehicle using both fuel cell and battery pack for [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2007 by admin
This week both the Canadians and British have set sail on hydrogen fuel cell boats. In Canada, Jim Harrington, president of AGO Electronics, put a 300-watt Horizon fuel cell system in a 19-foot sloop and sailed it successfully, putting out zero emissions. In the UK, today, the University of Birmingham is unveiling its fully functional [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2007 by admin
The Florida-based Windhunter Corporation is taking a novel approach to producing mass quantities of hydrogen by setting sail for the high seas. According to the Windhunter website, they are researching and developing large maritime ships that carry various configurations of wind turbines on them and then chase the prevailing winds wherever they happen to be [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2007 by admin
Last week I blogged about a Dutch hydrogen ferryboat being built called the Fuel Cell Boat BV. Now, I wish to report that there are several other hydrogen ferryboats in the planning stages as well. Besides the Duffy hydrogen ferryboat prototype that was demonstrated in Newport Beach, California in 2003, there are plans to build [...]
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