Posted on 06/07/2023 7:21:24 AM PDT by dynachrome
Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030.
The company currently has a fleet of eight ships, each with a capacity of 500 passengers, that travel along the Norwegian coast from Oslo to the Arctic Circle. Although a relatively small firm, CEO Hedda Felin hopes that this innovation “can inspire the entire maritime industry.”
The project, named “Sea Zero,” was initially announced in March 2022 and since then, Hurtigruten Norway, along with 12 maritime partners and Norway-based research institute SINTEF, has been exploring technological solutions that could help to achieve emission-free marine travel.
The zero-emissions ship's sails will retract so that the ship can pass under bridges, as shown here in a rendering.
The resulting design will run predominantly off 60 megawatt batteries that can be charged in port with clean energy, as renewables account for 98% of Norway’s electricity system. Gerry Larsson-Fedde, SVP of marine operations for Hurtigruten Norway, who came up with the idea of a zero-emission ship, estimates that the batteries will have a range of 300 to 350 nautical miles, meaning that during an 11-day round trip, one liner would have to charge around seven or eight times.
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LOL
Solar sail?
Cruising to Mars, maybe?
I guess greenies like vacations where they don’t go outside the bubble they are travelling in.
How big is the conventionally powered tug that will accompany it?
Might want to have these guys on speed dial.
Imagine that vessel with 4,000 people on board caught in a storm.
zero emission.
4000 green idiots? I probably won’t feel sorry for them.
No... not there.
Fhloston Paradise!!!
Perhaps one day I’ll change my FR nickname to Deep in the Hurtigruten Cruise.
Beautiful ship! In a previous life...
Yeah, sign me up for a cruise on that one. /s
From Wikipedia:
Average annual [Norwegian] hydropower generation capacity in 2019 was around 131 TWh, about 95% of total electricity production.
Of the total production in 2011 of 128 TWh; 122 TWh was from hydroelectric plants, 4795 GWh was from thermal power, and 1283 GWh was wind generated. In the same year, the total consumption was 114 TWh. Hydro production can vary 60 TWh between years, depending on amount of precipitation, and the remaining hydro potential is about 34 TWh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
sounds like that eleven days will be 6 months stranded at sea
The cruise to nowhere!
A three-hour tour ... a three-hour tour ...
while the passengers 4-5K of them would continue daily demand,and how about the engines/ ridiculous idea. Imagine the next lockdown pandemic trapped on a stranded solar battery bank.
The battery quality control had better be extraordinary.
Far more batteries than a Tesla means more fire risk.
Compartmentalization of the batteries might help.
Multi-pass for Lila and Corben Dallas.
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