DUTCH SHIPYARD ANNOUNCES FIRST HYDROGEN FUEL- CELL SUPERYACHT
Dutch shipyard Feadship, specialists in custom superyachts, has confirmed it is entering the hydrogen superyacht market.
Jan-Bart Verkuyl, Feadship director and chief executive of Royal Van Lent Shipyard, confirmed that its first hydrogen fuel-cell superyacht is in-build. “[We’re] proud to
announce Feadship’s advanced solution for more sustainable yachting: a fully certified liquid hydrogen fuel-cell yacht,” he says in a statement released on LinkedIn.
Feadship confirms the yacht will house a cryogenic fuel tank, storing liquified hydrogen at around -250°C; being the densest storage method of pure hydrogen. The shipyard says this fuel cell bank will be sufficient to sail at a decent speed while still powering the hotel load in summer conditions.
Hydrogen propulsion has an increasing interest in recent years among superyacht builders and commercial vessel makers, as it can be produced efficiently through electrolysis from electricity. With increasing wind, sun and other renewable power supply, green hydrogen production will ramp up to buffer the renewable energy.
BRAZIL BANS LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS
Reuters reports that federal judge Djalma Gomes’s ruling states: “Animals are not things. They are sentient living beings, that is, individuals who feel hunger, thirst, pain, cold, anguish, fear.”
The verdict was handed down after the National Forum for the Protection and Defense of Animals filed a law suit in 2017.
The case, still subject to appeal, comes as New Zealand also banned the export of cattle from its shores from April 30. Over 30,000 people signed a petition by animal welfare group SAFE’s, and over 57,000 emails were sent to the Prime Minster calling for a ban.
The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries began a review of the live export trade in 2019 when news broke of New Zealand cattle suffering in Sri Lanka. The review found over 86% of submitters were in favor of a total ban on the trade.
SAFE CEO Debra Ashton says the ban sends a powerful message to the world that the mistreatment of animals will no longer be tolerated. “The ban will spare hundreds of thousands of animals from the horrors of live export and has prompted similar calls across the globe. Australia is now moving to ban the live export of sheep, and Luxembourg has limited the countries they will export to for animal welfare reasons. Steps have also been made to tighten regulations for live export from the European Union, amidst pressure to ban live export completely.”
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