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conversion has losses - if it was remotely economically viable people would be doing it ALL OVER the place. Energy storage is the magic bullet to make renewabl
by EricE 5y ago
conversion has losses - if it was remotely economically viable people would be doing it ALL OVER the place. Energy storage is the magic bullet to make renewables truly feasible for base load support and if this was remotely viable AT ALL someone would have implemented it already.
Just because a tech is available doesn't mean it's practical for every day use.
- adrianN 5y agoConversion has losses, true. For electricity to gas and back the losses are around 50%. That's perfectly fine for a technology you need for maybe a couple of weeks per year. The real question is how expensive the equipment is. Power is essentially free for renewables, all costs are depreciation of equipment. And as I said above, people _have_ implemented it already. There are dozens of MW of hydrolyzers installed in Germany alone.