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Caribbeans

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Mon Mar 10, 2025, 04:50 PM Mar 10

World-first: Japanese ship makes GREEN hydrogen at sea, delivers it for use on land


The Winz Maru.

World-first: Japanese ship makes green hydrogen at sea, delivers it for use on land

InterestingEngineering.com | Mar 10, 2025

In a world first, Japanese shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) successfully produced hydrogen offshore and delivered it onshore to Tokyo.

MOL produced the hydrogen offshore using its demonstration yacht, Winz Maru. The company’s vessel features an onboard plant that produces easily-transportable green hydrogen.

The Winz Maru demostrator is part of the Wind Hunter Project, which aims to create a green hydrogen supply chain. Japan is the world leader in green hydrogen technologies. These could play a key role in the country’s transition away from fossil fuels.

The Winz Maru

MOL’s Winz Maru vessel produced the hydrogen offshore and delivered it to the central breakwater area of Tokyo.

The MOL team produced green hydrogen and converted it to the liquid organic hydrogen carrier methylcyclohexane (MCH) aboard Winz Maru. This was to allow safer and more efficient transportation...more
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/world-first-japanese-ship-makes-green-hydrogen-at-sea-delivers-it-for-use-on-land

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World-first: Japanese ship makes GREEN hydrogen at sea, delivers it for use on land (Original Post) Caribbeans Mar 10 OP
These idiotic ""firsts" have been announced decade after decade... NNadir Mar 10 #1

NNadir

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1. These idiotic ""firsts" have been announced decade after decade...
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 04:56 PM
Mar 10

...and still the hydrogen scam funded and promoted by the fossil fuel industry it serves, has done zero to slow or affect in any way the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.

The reason is that the laws of physics, as opposed to marketing, control the atmosphere. The laws of physics in turn are not subject to advertising.

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