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Caribbeans's JournalNorway: MF Hydra ferry starts world's first voyage on emission-free liquid hydrogen
March 31, 2023, by Ajsa Habibic
MF Hydra, the world’s first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry operated by Norwegian company Norled, is breaking ground as it starts sailing on zero-emission hydrogen with a blessing from the Norwegian Maritime Authority.
The ferry is put into operation today, 31 March, running on zero-emission hydrogen and marking a historic day, both for Norled and for Norway as a leading shipping nation, Norled’s CEO Heidi Wolden said.
Norled said it has been carrying out system tests at the quay in Hjelmelands since the turn of the year. In recent weeks, the company has been running sea trials and received the final approvals from the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA).
“This is fantastic! There are only two parties in the world that use liquid hydrogen as fuel. These are Norled with the MF Hydra, and then the space industry using it as fuel for launches. This says something about the giant technology leap now taken for the maritime industry. After a lot of development and testing, we are now looking forward to welcoming passengers on board for a zero-emission journey between Hjelmeland and Nesvik”, said Erlend Hovland, Chief Technology Officer of Norled...more
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/watch-mf-hydra-starts-worlds-first-voyage-on-emission-free-liquid-hydrogen/
Dec 3, 2021
Norwegian companies have joined forces to design, equip and build the world’s first ferry to run on liquid hydrogen. Editor of https://TheExplorer.no Victoria Coleman, takes us on board the MF Hydra and talks about the role it will play as a test ship, the importance of collaboration, and the need for new, green marine fuels.
Companies involved in the collaboration include:
• Corvus Energy
• LMG Marin
• Norled
• SEAM
• Westcon Yards
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Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022
Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022
eia.gov | March 27, 2023
Last year, the U.S. electric power sector produced 4,090 million megawatthours (MWh) of electric power. In 2022, generation from renewable sources—wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and geothermal—surpassed coal-fired generation in the electric power sector for the first time. Renewable generation surpassed nuclear generation for the first time in 2021 and continued to provide more electricity than nuclear generation last year.
Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S. electricity generation, increasing from a 37% share of U.S. generation in 2021 to 39% in 2022. The share of coal-fired generation decreased from 23% in 2021 to 20% in 2022 as a number of coal-fired power plants retired and the remaining plants were used less. The share of nuclear generation decreased from 20% in 2021 to 19% in 2022, following the Palisades nuclear power plant’s retirement in May 2022. The combined wind and solar share of total generation increased from 12% in 2021 to 14% in 2022. Hydropower generation remained unchanged, at 6%, in 2022. The shares for biomass and geothermal sources remained unchanged, at less than 1%.
Growth in wind and solar generating capacity drove the increase in wind and solar generation. Utility-scale solar capacity in the U.S. electric power sector increased from 61 gigawatts (GW) in 2021 to 71 GW in 2022, according to data from our Electricity Power Monthly. Wind capacity grew from 133 GW in 2021 to 141 GW in 2022.
More wind-generated power was produced in Texas than in any other state last year. Texas accounted for 26% of total U.S. wind generation last year, followed by Iowa (10%) and Oklahoma (9%). One of the largest wind farms in the United States (nearly 1,000 megawatt capacity [MW]) came online in Oklahoma in 2022...more
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960
Yet some proclaim this tech is "useless". Repeatedly. Over and over. "the more the lie is repeated, the more that believe it"
Minnesota nuclear plant shuts down for leak; residents worry
Source: AP
MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of radioactive material it says is not dangerous but has prompted concerns among nearby residents.
Xcel Energy started shutting down the plant in Monticello, and after it cools over the next few days, workers will cut out a pipe that is over 50 years old and had been leaking tritium, said Chris Clark, the utility’s president. The utility will then have the pipe analyzed in hopes of preventing similar leaks in the future, he said.
“We could have continued to safely operate the plant and simply repair the catchment, but then, of course, there is always a risk that it would spill over again and have more tritium enter the groundwater,” Clark said during a news conference near the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis. “We didn’t want to take that chance, so we’re bringing the plant down.”
Clark said the tritium isn’t a risk to the drinking water of Monticello or the nearby city of Becker. He said Monticello takes its water from the Mississippi River above the plant, and Becker’s intake is across the river. Even if the tritium reached the river, which Clark assured wouldn’t happen, it would dissipate within a few yards, he said.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-nuclear-plant-leak-6b72b6f9cd2a1141aadd985b68654e04
People walk on a trail at the Montissippi County Park near the Xcel Energy Monticello Generating Plant, a nuclear power plant, in Monticello, Minn., on Friday, March 24, 2023. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)
China's first 500kW hydrogen fuel powered ship commences operation
CGTN | Liu Wei | 21-Mar-2023
China's first service ship powered by a 500-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell has been put into operation in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, according to China Three Gorges Corporation on Monday.
The service ship, Three Gorges hydrogen ship No.1, uses homegrown hydrogen fuel cells and a lithium battery system and will be used for transportation, patrol and emergency in the Three Gorges reservoir area.
The ship marks a significant breakthrough for China's new energy shipbuilding, heralding the exploration into applying hydrogen technology to inland vessels...
...China has been witnessing rapid growth in modified and newly built hydrogen-powered ships. The domestic hydrogen fuel cell market is predicted to reach over 10 billion yuan (about $1.45 billion)...more
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-03-21/China-s-first-500kW-hydrogen-fuel-powered-ship-commences-operation--1imgAh2OSA0/index.html
Regulators: Nuclear plant leak didn't require public notice
Source: NEWS10 ABC
Minnesota regulators knew four months ago that radioactive waste had leaked from a nuclear power plant in Monticello — but they didn’t announce anything about the leak until this week.
The delay in notifying the public about the November leak raised questions about public safety and transparency, but industry experts said Friday there was never a public health threat. They said Xcel Energy voluntarily notified state agencies and reported the leak of tritium to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soon after it was confirmed and that the leak of 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of radioactive water never reached a threshold that would have required public notification.
“This is something that we struggle with because there is such concern with anything that is nuclear,” said Victoria Mitlyng, a spokesperson with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The concern is very, very understandable. That is why I want to make extra clear the fact that the public in Minnesota, the people, the community near the plant, was not and is not in danger.”...
“We knew there was a presence of tritium in one monitoring well, however Xcel had not yet identified the source of the leak and its location,” Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesperson Michael Rafferty said Thursday. “Now that we have all the information about where the leak occurred, how much was released into groundwater and that contaminated groundwater had moved beyond the original location, we are sharing this information.”
Read more: https://www.news10.com/news/national/regulators-nuclear-plant-leak-didnt-require-public-notice/
Bono 2018: 'I've Grown Very Fond' of GW. Bush. "Underneath his armor there's passion, compassion..."
Bono with US President George W. Bush after speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, February 6, 2006. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Bono: ‘I’ve Grown Very Fond’ of George W. Bush
Rolling Stone | SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON | NOVEMBER 30, 2018
...Tomorrow, December 1st, is World AIDS Day, and Bono stopped by The Today Show to reminisce about that partnership. The interview was conducted by co-host Jenna Bush Hager, the former president’s daughter, which meant questions like “Do you remember the first time you met my dad?”
“Yeah, well, he didn’t want to see me, which is fair enough,” Bono recalled. “Different political views and whatever. I was the guy who had to come into the office and get him to look up from his big oak table, there in the Oval Office, to let his values tell him what to do.”
Bono’s close work with George W. Bush was surprising at the time to many who saw his presidency as an unmitigated humanitarian disaster. (“Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history,” historian Sean Wilentz wrote in a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story that assessed the impact of Bush’s disastrous choices in Iraq, New Orleans and elsewhere.)...
...“I’ve become very fond of him,” Bono added. “Underneath his armor, there’s passion, compassion. He has it.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bono-george-w-bush-world-aids-day-761747/
There's a real "rebel"
Mr. Tax Exile himself. Another clown in the ongoing show.
Goldman Sachs: The Hydrogen Revolution Accelerates
Goldman Sachs | 17 MAR 2023
Hydrogen has both flexibility and a high specific energy per unit mass – two attributes that make it uniquely capable at removing emissions from the harder-to-decarbonize parts of the global economy.
According to Goldman Sachs Research:
Hydrogen can be used as an energy fuel, energy vector and feedstock.
Hydrogen can be used to store energy over the long term, propel heavy vehicles, and heat furnaces for the manufacture of steel among other heavy industrial uses.
Hydrogen can get us closer to net zero.
“Green” hydrogen, which is produced by using renewable energy sources to electrolyze water and split it into hydrogen and oxygen, is one of the most promising alternatives to “gray” hydrogen, which relies on natural gas supplies – and produces carbon dioxide that then needs to be released or stored. According to a new report from Goldman Sachs Research, government incentives are powering major strides in green hydrogen investments, particularly in the United States...
However, based on projects that have been announced, GS Research estimates as much as 137 GW will be installed by the end of 2030, about 1.7 times more than last year’s estimate of 80 GW. Given the long lead times in creating clean hydrogen production facilities, GS expects even more projects will be announced in the next few years. “Many of the projects for the second half of this decade still have not yet been announced, and are therefore not captured here, implying further upside,” writes Goldman Sachs equity research analyst Michele Della Vigna...more
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/the-hydrogen-revolution-accelerates.html
Hydrogen production market to reach $1 trillion, says Goldman Sachs
March 2022
Smithsonian Magazine: North America's First Hydrogen-Powered Train Will Debut This Summer
The hydrogen-powered train will travel between Parc de la Chute-Montmorency and Baie-Saint-Paul. While traveling a 90-minute route, the Train de Charlevoix will emit only water vapor. Image: Train de Charlevoix
Smithsonian Magazine | Molly Enking | March 16, 2023
This summer, North America’s first zero-emission train will start running in Canada.
The hydrogen-powered Train de Charlevoix will run a 90-minute route between Parc de la Chute-Montmorency, the site of an almost 300-foot waterfall located just outside of Québec City, and Baie-Saint-Paul, a picturesque riverside town known for its art galleries and local food scene, reports the Independent’s Joanna Whitehead. Developed by the French company Alstom, the train has been in the works for a decade.
The project is a triumph for North America, though European countries beat Canada to the punch: Germany started testing the world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger trains in 2018, going on to roll out a fleet in 2022. The German Coradia iLint trains, also made by Alstom, can reach speeds of 140 miles per hour. A single tank of hydrogen can last for more that 600 miles.
Germany’s trains are a “model for the rest of the world” and “a milestone on the road to climate neutrality in the transport sector,” said Stephan Weil, president of Lower Saxony, last summer, per CNN’s Julia Buckley...
“With only 1 percent of the networks electrified in our region, this technology will provide an alternative to diesel,” says Michael Keroullé, president of Alstom Americas, in the statement. “This project will demonstrate our capabilities to provide more sustainable mobility solutions to customers, agencies and operators, as well as to passengers. It will also provide an extraordinary showcase for Quebec’s developing green hydrogen ecosystem.” ...more
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/north-america-first-hydrogen-powered-train-180981800/
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Why Hydrogen Trains?
UK: University of Birmingham: Answering your questions about our hydrogen trains research
New zero-emissions ferry to begin operating in San Francisco
Source: LA Times
A new zero-emissions ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology has arrived in San Francisco, where it will undergo trial runs and preparations to carry passengers later this year.
The 70-foot catamaran is believed to be the first commercial maritime vessel in the United States powered entirely by hydrogen fuel cells, officials said. The boat is a key part of an ambitious plan by the San Francisco Bay Ferry to replace a significant number of its pollutant-spewing diesel vessels with zero-emission watercraft by 2035.
“We know the future is zero emissions with marine transportation,” San Francisco Bay Ferry spokesman Thomas Hall said in an interview Monday. “We’re really pushing the envelope.”
Known as the Sea Change, the aluminum catamaran can transport up to 75 passengers at a top speed of 15 knots, according to the California Air Resources Board, which provided a $3-million grant to help fund the project. The boat will have enough hydrogen storage capacity for two days of normal operation.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-13/new-zero-emissions-ferry-to-begin-operating-in-san-francisco
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