Dutch consortium Fuel Cell Boat b.v., has recently agreed the development and construction of a commercial hydrogen boat and refuelling facilities for use within Amsterdam.
The ‘green’ roundtrip boat has a capacity of 100 passengers and is expected to be completed later in 2007. In order to enable this, the consortium will also place a tank station that will supply the boat with hydrogen.
The advantage of the hydrogen boat over other commercial boats within the Amsterdam region is the environmental friendly zero-emissions character of the boat, absolutely no emissions are produced.
The required hydrogen will be produced by means of electrolysis on the basis of electricity from wind energy. Today, small boat vessels operating on hydrogen already exist, but a commercially exploited hydrogen boat of this dimension is a world first.
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