nichyoung

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   by nichyoung 5y ago

   Future costs are never certain. And it may depend where in the world you are. I’m pretty sure salt caverns full of hydrogen are a lot cheaper than most people expect batteries to get for storing (transmission grid scale) energy for a month
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   by nichyoung 5y ago

   It doesn’t seem very likely that hydrogen can compete against batteries for short duration storage. But storing electricity for weeks or months (to meet unusual peaks in demand or troughs in supply) is a very different market. Today, natura
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   by nichyoung 6y ago

   Hydrogen is not great as a means of exporting energy, it is, unfortunately, hard to transport. Hydrogen is about 1/3 the energy/volume density of natural gas - so much worse than liquid fuels - and has a very low boiling point so
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   by nichyoung 6y ago

   Hydrogen has started to become more prominent since (most of) the world started talking about getting to net zero carbon emissions, rather than, say, 80% cuts by 2050. A net zero system needs to meet several needs which renewables and nucle