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I am no expert on this, but my understanding was natural gas is useful for its flexibility and efficency to handle gaps in supply. The big batteries are amazing

I am no expert on this, but my understanding was natural gas is useful for its flexibility and efficency to handle gaps in supply. The big batteries are amazing but they can't (yet) cover longer gaps the same way natural gas can.

pfdietz 1y ago
That's right. When natural gas becomes unavailable or banned, green hydrogen could be used for that instead.
- analog31 1y ago
  How will green hydrogen be preferable to batteries?
  - pfdietz 1y ago
    Very much lower capex per unit of stored energy. This is balanced by a much lower round trip efficiency, so for short term storage batteries are superior.