Thread: Electric ferries - good idea?

Ideally, cars, boats, trucks, etc should be run with electric motors, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Instead of bleeding off, or shutting down generation of electricity, when there's too much of it, electrolysis could be making hydrogen all the time, 24 hrs a day, from existing electricity generation. See Tiwai Point.

Given that the taxpayer already paid, for all the Hydro in NZ, the electricity should be almost free, apart from maintenance costs (that's before it was flogged off for pennies, to private money men). Remove the profit quotient from NZ's electricity industry, and we're set.



If you want a proof of concept, see Team NZ's new chase boat.