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They today import fuel and burn it. They are equipped to continue doing so. They can add transmission lines, for cheaper importation. As fuel synthesis -- amm
by ncmncm 4y ago
They today import fuel and burn it. They are equipped to continue doing so.
They can add transmission lines, for cheaper importation.
As fuel synthesis -- ammonia and hydrogen -- comes online and undercuts NG, they can import that instead, at times when their transmission line power capacity or availability is exceeded.
Fuel synthesis from solar in the tropics undercutting NG extraction will be a big business. Synthesis using reliable wind, in other places, likewise.
In the meantime, as minority participants, their contribution to the ongoing climate catastrophe is relatively small.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agofuel synthesis is one of the few trully plausible solutions to the storage problem, but i am not sure it will be cheaper - hydrogen is so much more difficult to handle than petrolium. I am not up to date with ammonia based processed.
- ncmncm 4y agoThere are many obviously practical storage methods. Ammonia and hydrogen are attractive because you can sell extra production after your local tankage is full, keeping your synthesis equipment busy whenever you are not drawing down your storage.