World's First Fuel Cell Ship Docks in Copenhagen

Monday, December 21, 2009 - 10:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

COPENHAGEN--Pleasure yachts and tall ships line the wharves and quays of Nyhavn here in the Danish capital. Shipping in Denmark goes back to the Vikings and their long ships that made perilous sea crossings even beyond Greenland. Now what may be the future of shipping is docked around the corner from Nyhavn at Kvaesthusmolen pier, a bright orange and yellow North Sea supply ship from Norway dubbed " Viking Lady "--the first ship to employ a fuel cell in history. [More]

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