Welcome to our Weekly News Round Up for the hydrogen space!
Here are our top 5 news pieces for this week with key takeaways:
- Maritime #shipping is responsible for roughly 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to the
International Maritime Organization
. The longer that ships continue to run on carbon-emitting fuel, the harder it will be to reach #netzero emissions by 2050 and to prevent the worst damage predicted by climate scientists ??
- The
International Energy Agency (IEA)
has urged a transition to alternative fuels as quickly as possible, determining that the sector will have to reduce #emissions by 15% between 2025 and 2030 to get on track. In countries around the world, forward-thinking trailblazers are investing in #ammonia as the maritime fuel of the future ?
- Ammonia stands out as the most economically viable #carbonfree fuel for maritime shipping. As the second most commonly produced chemical in the world, it provides the benefits of #hydrogen without the logistical and investment challenges. It is already shipped as cargo to approximately 200 ports worldwide and transported internationally by 40 vessels on a regular basis ??
- Ammonia has been safely used in industrial and #agricultural settings for more than a century and there’s a well-established regulatory framework for its production, storage and transportation. Moreover, ammonia takes a short time to refuel as opposed to batteries, which need extensive recharging time ??
- From an #energy standpoint, ammonia is such a promising #fuel because it is broadly available, affordably priced, easy to store and uses existing transport and storage infrastructure ??
- The car drives just as you would expect an electric X5 to. There are two #electric motors driving all four wheels, producing 401 horsepower and accelerating the car to 60 mph in around six seconds. The range is a claimed 310 miles. This isn’t
宝马
’s next electric car. It is one of 100 prototypes used to evaluate whether hydrogen #fuelcell vehicles have a viable future ??
- An onboard #hydrogen fuel cell is used to create electricity with oxygen captured from the surrounding air, which then powers the motors via a small, circa-2.0 kWh battery. Performance is generally the same as a conventional battery-powered EV and a small amount of water is the only emission ??
- The #range does not decrease in cold weather, as it does with #battery electric vehicles (BEV), and it is not hampered when towing a trailer either ?
- According to #data collected by the
Hydrogen Council
and shown to us by BMW, there are just 12 hydrogen filling stations in the UK, under 300 across Europe and the Middle East, about 100 in the US and only five in Australia. This situation is due to improve, with the European Union pledging to install a station every 200 km (124 miles) by 2030, totalling more than 600 stations. A few thousand are also planned for the US by the same year ?
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Koninklijk Nederlands Watersportverbond
has introduced an #emissionfree, hydrogen-powered coach boat set to be unveiled at the 2023 World Sailing Championships in The Hague, the Netherlands ??
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Torqeedo
provided its Deep Blue 50R outboard motor and a 40kWh Deep Blue Battery (lithium-ion) and an additional 51kWh hydrogen capacity, utilising a #hydrogenfuelcell as a range extender and expected to have a minimum of five hours of operation on the water ??
- The vessel can reach a maximum speed of 45km/h and has a silent and emissions-free alternative to conventional coach #boats, therefore making it an ideal companion for sailing athletes during training and competitions ?
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Fabian Bez
, Torqeedo CEO, said, “Fuel cell technology in the maritime sector is still evolving. As pioneers in electrification, we have designed our electric drive systems to leverage #sustainable energy, from solar and wind power to fuel cells powered by hydrogen or other carbon-neutral liquid fuels.” ??
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Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH
told investors it landed the order to supply its #fuelcell system to an end customer at a hotel in Palma de Mallorca as part of the Green Hysland project, which seeks to create a fully functioning hydrogen #ecosystem on the holiday island ??
- Through the Green Hysland project, Mallorca aims to become the first ‘hydrogen hub’ in Southern Europe. The plan is to produce green hydrogen from solar #energy, with the gas used to fuel the island's tourism, transport, industry and energy sectors ??
- Proton said it expects to deliver its system in the first half of 2024, to recognise revenue in the same year ??
- The first commercial hydrogen-powered #refuelling station has been launched in New South Wales, Australia. The station was supplied by British company
Haskel
, in partnership with Coregas at its hydrogen production facility at Port Kembla ??
- Haskel provided Coregas with its turnkey GENO hydrogen refuelling station solution, designed for highly demanding refuelling profiles and delivers back-to-back filling, with the capacity of delivering 400kg of #hydrogen per day ?
- The GENO system will take hydrogen from the production plant, compress it to 350 bar and then transport it to a dispenser at the vehicle fuelling station 50 metres away. The compression technology is expected to have the same refuelling ease as traditional #petroleum and #diesel refuelling stations, easing the #transition ??
- The launch of the first hydrogen refuelling station on Australia’s west coast is anticipated to begin the transformation of the region’s transport #environmental footprint by enabling the deployment of a fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles ??
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