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> - heating a zillion legacy homes using existing gas pipelines They dont have electricity to heat with? > - running all the existing fertilizer and other che
by 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.