Sun, wind and hydrogen. This is all that the watercraft Energy Observer needs to sail, with which the Frenchmen Jerome Delafosse and Victorien Erussard are going on a six-year journey around the world. Their catamaran, which is a converted racing vessel (a former winner of the Jules Verne Trophy regatta), will be powered by solar and wind power (it is belted with solar panels and wind turbines) and will also be aided by fuel cells.
Energy Observer is the first working one watercraft in the world on solar and wind energy and hydrogen. The construction of the catamaran swallowed 4.2 million euros, French Victorien Delafosse and Victorien Erussard and he and I are going on a six-year odyssey around the world February 2017.
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Catamaran Energy Observer will be a kind of outdoor laboratory dedicated to emission-free research, and will make stops in 50 countries and 101 ports over the next six years. It measures in length 30 meters and is 12.8 meters wide. He is dressed in 130 square meters of solar panels, has two wind turbines and equipment for electrolysis, which creates with the obtained energy hydrogen.
Batteries that will run electric motors, in case of good weather, will be powered by solar and wind energy, otherwise it will rely on hydrogen cells.
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