{"id":196604,"date":"2024-09-24T05:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T10:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/tugboat-powered-by-ammonia-sails-for-the-first-time-showing-how-to-cut-emissions-from-shipping"},"modified":"2024-09-24T05:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T10:22:57","slug":"tugboat-powered-by-ammonia-sails-for-the-first-time-showing-how-to-cut-emissions-from-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/tugboat-powered-by-ammonia-sails-for-the-first-time-showing-how-to-cut-emissions-from-shipping","title":{"rendered":"Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tugboat-powered-by-ammonia-sails-for-the-first-time-showing-how-to-cut-emissions-from-shipping.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 On a tributary of the Hudson River, a tugboat powered by ammonia eased away from the shipyard dock and sailed for the first time to show how the maritime industry can slash planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The tugboat used to run on diesel fuel. The New York-based startup company Amogy bought the 67-year-old ship to switch it to cleanly-made ammonia, a new, carbon-free fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The tugboat\u2019s first sail on Sunday night is a milestone in <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-shipping-emissions-los-angeles-4d7e74f7994463aafbcd58f8c15936be\">a race to develop zero-emissions propulsion<\/a> using renewable fuel. Emissions from shipping have increased over the last decade \u2014 <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/publication\/review-maritime-transport-2023#:~:text=The%20industry's%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions, and%20the%20energy%2Dproducing%20industry.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to about 3% of the global total according to the United Nations<\/a> \u2014 as vessels have gotten much bigger, delivering more cargo per trip and using immense amounts of fuel oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 On a tributary of the Hudson River, a tugboat powered by ammonia eased away from the shipyard dock and sailed for the first time to show how the maritime industry can slash planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions. The tugboat used to run on diesel fuel. The New York-based startup company Amogy bought [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196604","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\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}