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For the low low price of 6 over budget 1TW nuclear power plants we could have a single hydrogen _storage_ plant. What a bargain. Oh sorry, we could have the s
by thrown_22 4y ago
For the low low price of 6 over budget 1TW nuclear power plants we could have a single hydrogen _storage_ plant.
What a bargain.
Oh sorry, we could have the storage facilities of a single hydrogen storage plant with none of the equipment needed to turn the stored hydrogen to electricity.
- pfdietz 4y agoNuclear power plants are more like 1 GW, not 1 TW. You mean six reactors that produce about the storage capacity of the hydrogen storage facility over a year, I'm guessing. The problem is the nuclear power plants just dribble out their power at a constant rate, while hydrogen storage can deliver its output just when it's needed (and is most valuable). In other words, the hydrogen output is dispatchable, nuclear is not. The output part of the hydrogen storage would be either simple cycle turbines or combined cycle, which are 20x (10x for CC) cheaper than NPPs per unit power output.