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Because the hydrogen trains are planned to run in regions with lots of wind energy — whenever there is too much electricity on the grid, just produce hydrogen f
by kuschku 8y ago
Because the hydrogen trains are planned to run in regions with lots of wind energy — whenever there is too much electricity on the grid, just produce hydrogen from the excess energy, and use it later in trains.
It's a much better solution for handling the spikes in wind than most of the alternatives.
- tehbeard 8y agoIs that an option for offshore wind farms? Or would seawater be too expensive to "purify" before splitting into hydrogen/oxygen?
- TomK32 8y agoSplit the water onshore, building those things offshore wouldn't make much sense when all you need is a cable to bring the electricity on shore to larger conversion installations
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- hokkos 8y agoLarge scale hydrogen electrolysers are capital expensive, so there is no such thing as to only use them when electricity is cheap.