Four Toyota Mirais Partially Powered U2's Concert Inwards Japan

For those lucky plenty to spotter U2 at their Tokyo present end month, they’ll live surprised to know that that the concert was partially powered yesteryear the hydrogen-fueled Toyota Mirai.

This piddling tidbit was revealed inward an entry inward U2’s Official Blog. There, U2 detailed that at their Dec v present inward Tokyo, The Edge’s guitar, Adam Clayton’s bass, together with the entire backline—guitar together with bass amplifiers, well effects, together with arrangement command all ran on construct clean hydrogen power. Four Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) were parked backstage, providing ability from construct clean together with renewable sources. Several Honda Power Exporter 9000s were used to convert the FCV’s straight electrical flow electricity to alternating electrical flow (AC) power.

U2 are the commencement international touring band to exercise hydrogen ability at a show, together with the minute Tokyo gig was the commencement sold-out present to exercise this liberate energy source to ability the backline.

Using hydrogen ability is the latest excogitation inward the band’s ongoing efforts to trim down together with mitigate the environmental behave upon of global touring. These included the elimination of all single-use plastics, ethical together with sustainably-sourced catering (including vegan together with vegetarian offerings), together with compost together with recycling inward the tour's kitchens too every bit inward its offices (including batteries, ink cartridges, together with fighting metal); together with a trash-to-art system where used guitar strings together with drum heads, are collected together with donated to partners who repurpose them into artwork. Additionally, used batteries are donated to local nonprofits.

Moreover during The Joshua Tree 2019 tour, environmental reporting together with carbon emissions-tracking metrics were used to calculate the tour's overall environmental impact—including greenhouse gas emissions—and to offset the tour's carbon footprint.

On transportation-related emissions, for instance, the model release of every truck, bus, limo, together with aircraft used throughout the tour inward gild to rails meticulously the full mileage, which determines full CO2 emissions, which are together with then offset.

Source: U2.com