Hydrogen ahoy! Water-splitting yacht creates green energy as it sails.
A British start-up has designed technology that can generate storable energy on seagoing vessels.
The catamaran skimming over the waves off the Essex coast looks like something a particularly enthusiastic sailor might race at weekends. But this cutting-edge carbon-fibre sailboat, whose wing-like hydrofoils lift it above the water, is, potentially, the future of green energy.
A little over a week ago it became the first boat in the world to produce hydrogen out at sea using just the power of the wind.
Racing along at speeds of up to 25 knots (just under 30mph) spins a propeller beneath the waves, which in turn drives a turbine and produces electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
On an overcast day off Brightlingsea, a two-hour test run filled a six-litre storage tankc with clean, green hydrogen, the only by product-was.
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Hydrogen ahoy! Water-splitting yacht creates green energy as it sails, July 10, 2022
