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I understand the use of wave in this context like hydrogen fuel cells in NA. It's amazing to hear that our governments are still giving money to what is clearly
by loufe 3y ago
I understand the use of wave in this context like hydrogen fuel cells in NA. It's amazing to hear that our governments are still giving money to what is clearly a bad idea (hydrogen). I think, like in the case of tidal power, you could chalk it up to doing something to sate special interests.
- pydry 3y agoHydrogen will probably fill a niche for seasonal grid energy storage. In general pumped storage > batteries > hydrogen for cost/efficiency, but hydrogen has the advantage that it's cheap to store for weeks or months at a time while pumped storage/batteries are suited only to smoothing out daily or weekly variations in solar and wind output. It's more useful for getting from 90%/95% to 100% green energy than from 0% - 90% though, and it's more expensive than natural gas performing the same function so we likely won't see it used in anger for a while.
- thworp 3y ago> but hydrogen has the advantage that it's cheap to store for weeks or months at a time Where did you get that idea? Hydrogen is extremely hard to work with and really really wants to escape from any containment vessel you put it in. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032123000606 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212...