Zero-emission boat prepares for round-the-world odyssey

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.iol.co.za/travel/world/zero-emission-boat-prepares-for-round-the-world-odyssey-7388648

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Zero-emission boat prepares for round-the-world odyssey[/font]

13 January 2017, 09:00am

[font size=3]The first self-sufficient boat powered only by emission-free energy will start a six-year trip around the world in the spring.

Energy Observer, a former multi-hull race boat converted into a green vessel equipped with solar panels, wind turbines and a hydrogen fuel cell system, will be powered by wind, the sun and self-generated hydrogen.

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"We bank on the diversity of renewable energies," Essuard said. "And if there is no sun or wind, or at night, we have the option to draw in our hydrogen reservoirs. We will produce this hydrogen in a decarbonized manner through electrolysis of the sea water."

According to Florence Lambert, the director of the CEA Liten research institute which devised the boat's energy system, Energy Observer is a good example of what energy networks will look like in the near future, with its well balanced mix of renewable energies and hydrogen storage system.

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[flamin lib]

1. First? How 'bout all those sailboats?? nt

[Canoe52]

2. My wife and I have one of those-

It's run by a technology created a few thousand years ago, its called a sailboat!

[Doug.Goodall]

3. What goes around, comes around

Who is buying the next round?