May the Electric Force Be With You: X-Wing Starfighters Escort a Battery-Powered Day Boat at ‘Star Wars Day’
The Navier 27 foiling boat, escorted by rebel X-Fighters, is this year’s boat commemorating Star Wars Day. Every year on Star Wars Day, the team at ThirtyC releases images of a yacht with some sort of image from the classic series. This year, the London-based firm showed…
Why e-fuels make no sense for cars, boats & ships
Despite battery electric cars & bots offering the cleanest, most efficient and affordable way to decarbonise, the fossil fuel industry is desperately promoting e-fuels for vehicles. E-fuels, which are chemically similar to petrol and diesel, have been touted by the fossil fuel industry and car…
U.S. Start-Up’s Ground-Breaking Electrolyser Promises Hydrogen at Around $1/kg
A U.S. start-up’s highly efficient proprietary electrolyser could drive down the price of green hydrogen compared to other similar technologies. Wisconsin-based Advanced Ionics’ Symbiotic electrolyser uses 35kWh of electricity to generate one kg of hydrogen, 30% less than the best alkaline or PEM technologies that run on 50kWh/kgH2,…
Meet ‘Chase Zero,’ the Hydrogen-Powered, High-Speed Foiling Cat That’s Transforming the America’s Cup
Zero carbon emissions, 60-mph top end, software-controlled foils. Could this 33-footer revolutionize boating? You can bet on it. Happy Earth Day. You’re looking at what could become the sportboat of the future: a sleek foiling power catamaran that can glide over the waves at close…
12 Speedy Battery-Powered Boats Bringing the Electric Revolution to the Water
The once disregarded concept is now coming of age in real time. Even two years ago, the idea of electric-powered watercraft was confined mostly to cool-looking sketches. The notion didn’t carry much credibility in the boating world, since water’s high drag caused batteries to deplete…
Methane at Sea: Finding the Invisible Climate Killer
T&E’s investigation into so-called ‘green’ liquid natural gas (LNG) ships uncovers significant amounts of invisible methane being released into the atmosphere. On a crisp Monday morning in the port of Rotterdam, the Ecodelta, a dredger boat, gets to work scraping the seabed, clearing the way for…
The electric tender revolution: Meet the models leading the charge
Electric tenders have been a long time coming, but, says Sam Fortescue, these frontrunners are well worth the investment… Let’s get this out of the way up front. In the blunt words of Ernest Menten at Tenderworks: “You have to accept that an electric tender is…
Hydrofuel Canada – Green Ammonia and Hydrogen Now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels with their own Technology
Hydrofuel Canada – Green Ammonia and hydrogen now cheaper than fossil fuels with their own technology. Hydrofuel’s licensing of Micro Ammonia Production System (MAPS) from Georgia Tech to combine with its Kontak Hydrogen from Ammonia Separation Modules Greg Vezina, Hydrofuel Canada Chairman and CEO: Our…
A new energy storage system can store solar power for nearly two decades
Researchers from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology designed an energy system that stores solar energy in liquid form for up to 18 years, a press statement reveals. With the help of scientists from China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Chalmers team has tested its device, called the Molecular Solar…
GR60, an electric-powered trawler catamaran under construction in Thailand
The GR60 is a new catamaran offered by Gilles Reigner, founder of Green Research Yachting (GREYachting), a shipyard based in Thailand. The first model of this electric-powered trawler is currently under construction. Fuel cell, wind turbine and solar panels With its two huge vertical wind…
California Enacts Strict New Rules on Harbor Craft Emissions
Continuing its effort to limit emissions for vessels operating in the state’s ports and near the coast, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved updates to its Commercial Harbor Craft Regulation designed to reduce diesel soot and nitrogen oxides emission from commercial harbor craft including…
Why burning hydrogen in an ICE is an awful idea and why electric boats wins…
It’s not difficult to modify an existing ICE – internal-combustion engine – to burn hydrogen instead of petrol or diesel, but it’s also not a smart thing to do. The appeal isn’t hard to understand. The ICE, as we all know, is an affordable technology that’s…