The future of sea travel could be here — and it just might help save the planet.
For more than a century, residents have traveled around San Francisco Bay with ferry boats powered mostly by diesel — a planet-warming fossil fuel. But now, the world's first hydrogen-powered passenger ferry, which produces zero emissions, is launching in the bay.
The marine-based shipping industry, mostly international shipping, is one of the dirty and not so little secrets of climate change. It causes about 3% of all global carbon dioxide gas emissions, which is more than the CO2 emissions from the airline industry.
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