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March 8, 2025
Building the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship
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AIDAnova is the largest cruise ship ever built in Germany.
It's the world’s first ever ocean liner with an liquid natural gas drive system, which prevents the release of particulate matter and sulphur oxides and significantly reduces the emission of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide.
MEYERWERFT spent ten years developing the vessel.
It's the first gas-powered ship in the Helios Class — two structurally identical sister ships followed.
Three tanks in the belly of the ship can hold around 3,500 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, enough to fuel a two-week cruise.
The gas is cooled to -162°C to turn it into a liquid.
AIDAnova has 2,626 staterooms on 20 decks.
The ship joined the AIDA fleet at the end of 2018.
March 8, 2025 at 04:01 PM | Permalink
Comments
Joe said LNG in capital letters, not hydrogen.
But...
In a boat (or an automobile), hydrogen can be used as transportable energy storage, like a battery. Electricity is used to fill a hydrogen "battery". In Germany, wind and solar power far exceed power generated from coal (of which lignite is a part), and the proportions of renewable energy are steadily shifting away from fossil fuel. Fortunately, even lignite as a power source is not nearly as filthy and toxic as the heavy fuel oil used by the shipping industry worldwide.
And...
For another major form of transportation, railways, the power source is not a movable battery, but electric lines built along with the rail lines, to power 90% of "transport mileage" on German trains.
Posted by: Luke | Mar 10, 2025 10:09:26 AM
And the hydrogen is made how?
And cooled how?
German wokeism at it's best, as they burn lignite to get electricity.
Lignite is the dirtiest, highest CO2, lowest quality coal available.
Posted by: nonom | Mar 9, 2025 10:39:33 PM
