Hydrogen-powered boat plots course for the future of ocean travel | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission

Hydrogen-powered boat plots course for the future of ocean travel | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission

The first day that Jérôme Delafosse stepped aboard the Energy Observer, an experimental catamaran run on hydrogen, he knew the plan of sailing around the world on clean energy was a realistic one, he says. Now, the explorer and documentary maker is one year into a six-year odyssey around the globe with his friend Victorien Erussard, an ocean racer and former cruise ship officer, to prove that the technology can be used for pollution-free ocean travel in the future. 
But while Delafosse believes hydrogen is the energy of the future, he says the technology needs to be more efficient and cost-effective to really contribute to decarbonisation.

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