I've been following this thread with interest.
I think the technology has it's merits, but I am more thinking of city tour boats or natural reserve boats which have a short range, a fixed mooring point with filling station and where there are requirements for reducing emissions (locally).
The kind of cases where we see battery powered boats or solar boats already.
I don't think it is an ideal technology for crossing the Atlantic, or you'd probably have to do it on an immense airtank with a little airmotor attached to it. But please prove me wrong (have a back-up boat nearby though).
To avoid misunderstandings, I think it would be better if you didn't refer to "air" as the fuel. The air is not the fuel. It is the power accumulator, like a battery. And it's not just "air", it's "compressed air". Air which has taken energy to compress. Energy which may have been produced with renewable resources or not.
In any case: thumbs up for companies investing in research for new and better propulsion methods! Keep up the good work!
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