A generator that charges all on-board batteries is no longer a luxury of superyachts. In fact, Italy’s Mobil Tech has developed a product designed to be installed on any type of boat. It doesn’t even need to have a motor; in fact, its operation uses a revolutionary physical principle that has been used since 1977 by NASA.
“Space” technology for boats
Mobil Tech produces the Zeus200 generator by exploiting the same technology used for the Voyager program ‘s space probes. The Seebeck effect, discovered in 1821 by. physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck, allows the temperature differential between two surfaces to be used to produce energy, in this case electricity. One plate is heated with a diesel burner (taken in minimal amounts directly from the boat’s tank) and another cooled with seawater. Zeus200 is capable of producing 200 watts of power and about 400 amperes per day. Not bad, especially for small to medium boats, unique for boats without engines. It weighs very little, just over 36 kilograms, and has small dimensions (67x35x33 cm), this allows the thermoelectric generator to be installed and“hidden” even in small and hidden compartments. Zeus200 is also super quiet, pollutes very little, and produces very little vibration. What does it mean? That you can operate it at night, letting the batteries recharge while you sleep, so much so he will shut himself off when the batteries reach a charge.
Learn all the details of the Zeus200 with videos from Milan Yachting Week
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you can visit Mobil Tech’s digital booth at Milan Yachting Week. You will find some videos made at Mobil Tech’s headquarters, where the company’s technicians explain in detail how this thermoelectric generator works. If you want you can also contact them directly, just fill out the email form found in the booth.
