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You didn’t seem te read the parent’s comment fully. What he suggested is that we use the overprovisioning to generate methane or hydrogen so it propells us thr
by kolinko 6y ago
You didn’t seem te read the parent’s comment fully.
What he suggested is that we use the overprovisioning to generate methane or hydrogen so it propells us through a few weeks of no wind or sun.
So, instead of 1GW of Nuclear you have 2GW of solar/wind + 1GW electrolysis and 1GW of hydrogen capacity.
This gives you better network stability than nuclear and the cost are or will soon be lower than the nuclear
- throw0101a 6y agoWhat is the efficiency loss at each of these steps to get methane/hydrogen, and then the efficiency loss to convert these materials back to electricity? I have no issue with using renewables per se; I'm just skeptical about basing the entire system on them: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
- andromeduck 6y agoAnd what's the leakage rate during production, transportation and combustion? Methane is 80x more potent than co2.