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- heating a zillion legacy homes using existing gas pipelines - running all the existing fertilizer and other chemical plants - gas peakers/backups for resili
by michael1999 3y ago
- heating a zillion legacy homes using existing gas pipelines
- running all the existing fertilizer and other chemical plants
- gas peakers/backups for resiliency. Gas storage is much cheaper than batteries.
Even if all new construction is electric, we have decades of infrastructure built around gas. Replacing the furnace in every German house with a heat pump just isn't going to happen in 10 years.
- maerF0x0 3y ago> - heating a zillion legacy homes using existing gas pipelines They dont have electricity to heat with? > - running all the existing fertilizer and other chemical plants This takes hydrogen gas from the nat gas, why not just use the electricity for hydrolysis I think other commenters have said it well. It's really just a storage mechanism. Waste daytime solar for use at non-peak solar production
- michael1999 3y agoHalf of German homes use gas heat. Replacing half the furnaces in Germany will take a loooong time. My point isn't efficiency, but the size of the installed plant. I fully expect new infrastructure will use more electricity. But we have accumulated trillions of dollars of infrastructure using natural gas over more than a century. There is absolutely no way we are going to replace it all in 10 years.