{"id":182583,"date":"2024-02-13T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/hydrogen-container-ship-could-slash-carbon-emissions-by-3000-tons"},"modified":"2024-02-13T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:23:27","slug":"hydrogen-container-ship-could-slash-carbon-emissions-by-3000-tons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/hydrogen-container-ship-could-slash-carbon-emissions-by-3000-tons","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen container ship could slash carbon emissions by 3000 tons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-container-ship-could-slash-carbon-emissions-by-3000-tons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>H2 Barge 2<\/em> is a hydrogen fuel-cell powered ship designed to transport containers on the Rhine between Rotterdam (NL) and Duisburg (DE) with zero emissions that could represent a massive reduction in carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Dutch shipowner Future Proof Shipping (FPS) and funded by the EU Flagships project and the Interreg ZEM Ports NS project, the <em>H2 Barge 2<\/em> (formerly <em>Fenny 1<\/em> and <em>FPS Waal<\/em>) was built as a conventionally powered containership before being converted to electric drive \u2013 with the 1.2 MW of power to drive the vessel\u2019s motors coming from six PEM fuel cells, hydrogen storage, and a number of battery packs placed below deck.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to its previous incarnations, the <em>H2 Barge 2<\/em> is expected to reduce 3,000 tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub> annually while sailing a comparable amount of shipping containers up and down the Rhine. And, in doing so (the company says), the vessel proves that the European river fleet can be, \u201cfully zero emission already today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H2 Barge 2 is a hydrogen fuel-cell powered ship designed to transport containers on the Rhine between Rotterdam (NL) and Duisburg (DE) with zero emissions that could represent a massive reduction in carbon emissions. Developed by Dutch shipowner Future Proof Shipping (FPS) and funded by the EU Flagships project and the Interreg ZEM Ports [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}