Hydrogen Fuel Cell Yacht

The yacht boasts a range of 3 750 nautical miles 6 945 kilometers and can.

Hydrogen fuel cell yacht.

Sinot yacht architecture design and lateral naval architects made waves in monaco last week when they introduced aqua their strikingly stylish 376 foot long liquid hydrogen powered superyacht. The telegraph claims former microsoft chief has tasked feadship with building a vessel inspired by sinot s aqua the world s first hydrogen fuel cell based superyacht the roughly 644 million. Fuel cell on a boat. Hydrogen fuel cells can be thought of as batteries that never run flat as long as the h 2 keeps coming.

Hydrogen fuel cell powered transportation on water or on land has yet to break into the mainstream this is in part due to the lack of infrastructure supporting the. But although the technology has been available to yachtsmen for nearly. It s a floating laboratory pr stunt and clean. The energy observer is a 100 energy self sufficient boat sailing around the world to prove the usefulness of cutting edge technologies including a hydrogen fuel cell made with help from toyota.

A rack of lithium cells onboard keep the thing running when it s cloudy or calm winds and toyota s fuel cell system takes over to produce the boat s propelling energy at night. The proton exchange membrane pem fuel cells generating power of four mw to support the hotel functions and the electric engines one mw each with contra rotating propellers and voith schneider propellers. It claims to be hydrogen powered and zero emission and it also claims to be making hydrogen from the water on which the boat floats rather than tanks of hydrogen that come from a hydrogen.