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MARINE FUEL: THE AGE OF HYDROGEN

Oslo decide to fund from two to ? ve “fast-ferry project”, and it has a corre- ture needs. The same cold realism that over a span of 15 years will now deliver hydrogen-propulsion ferry projects. At sponding designated supply chain for saw the EU and Norway ? rst promote hydrogen by compression or refrigera- least one of these is also an EU-? nanced hydrogen transit’s anticipated infrastruc- and then abandon biodiesel and LNG tion down to -265 degrees Celsius.

“Batteries are preferred when they work, but you need to have electric power available,” Haugom says, adding

Baltimore’s Full Service that hydrogen is the fuel that contains

Ship Repair Yard the most energy per kilogram. “Nothing can compete with hydrogen for energy ?&RQYHUVLRQV 5HWUR¿WV density. But, you have to contain it. The ?6HUYLFH$Q\ZKHUHLQWKH3RUW challenge is to pressurize it. The contain- ?$URXQGWKH&ORFN6HUYLFH ment gets heavy.” ?'U\'RFNDQG:HW%HUWK6HUYLFHVDWRXU.H\

Hydrogen, today, is mostly used in fer- +LJKZD\/RFDWLRQ tilizer production. Capturing hydrogen ?)ORDWLQJ(TXLSPHQWWR6HUYLFH9HVVHOVDW&DUJR3LHUV from the burning of fossil-fuel or from “scrubbing” industrial emissions is one way to get it, but critics say that would undermine hydrogen’s green credentials as a fuel. Trucking it to Norway just won’t do either. For now, the supply of hydrogen looks “unsolved”.

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Yet in an era of “design your way to

EMERGENCY/ MAINTENANCE market”, Europe and Norway are hop-

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A fast-ferry commuter vessel, the Urban Water

Shuttle is a joint EU-Nor- way project.

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