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so you store the energy using hydrogen, and import energy in form of hydrogen from southern regions

• realusername 5y ago
  that further decreases the efficiency and it's not feasible to store even a month of usage with that.
  • kitkat_new 5y ago
    why not? Germany used to store much higher amounts of gas: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Artikel/Energy/gas-instruments-used-to-secure-gas-supply.html#:~:text=The%20maximum%20volume%20of%20usable,United%20States%2C%20Russia%20and%20Ukraine https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Artikel/Energy/gas-instrume....
    • _ph_ 5y ago
      Right. And switching heating to heat pumps driven mostly by renewables will mean a large reduction in gas required in total.
  • zardo 5y ago
    We've pulled awful lot of natural gas out of the ground, it seems like there ought to be room for more than a months worth down there.