{"id":25143,"date":"2025-10-27T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25143"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:31:20","slug":"mv-sea-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mv-sea-change\/","title":{"rendered":"MV Sea Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About MV Sea Change:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>world\u2019s first commercial passenger ferry<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>powered entirely by zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The 75-passenger ferry was\u00a0<strong>built by All American Marine Shipyard<\/strong>\u00a0for the compatriot shipowner SWITCH Maritime.<\/li>\n<li>The vessel, designed by Incat Crowther, is\u00a0<strong>fitted with hydrogen-powered fuel cells<\/strong>\u00a0producing electricity to power electric motors, enabling the vessel to operate for about 16 hours, traveling around 300 nautical miles, between refueling sessions.<\/li>\n<li>It can reach speeds up to 20 knots, and its services speed will be about 8-12 knots.<\/li>\n<li>It uses H2 fuel cells to\u00a0<strong>generate electricity through<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>combination of H2 from storage<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>tanks and oxygen from the ambient air.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unlike current diesel-powered ferries that emit pollutants, the hydrogen-powered Sea Change\u00a0<strong>produces only heat and water vapor as by products<\/strong>. Passengers can even drink the emissions from an onboard water fountain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a fuel cell?<\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0fuel cell\u00a0is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. Fuel cells can be used in a wide range of applications, providing power for applications across multiple sectors, including transportation, industrial\/commercial\/residential buildings, and long-term energy storage for the grid in reversible systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-commercial-ferry-launches-in-san-francisco-9451865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World\u2019s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry launches in San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MV Sea Change is the world\u2019s first commercial passenger ferry powered entirely by zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}