Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by petre on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:30AM (#17713619)

Peaker gas plants running on gas imported from whom, Russia? At least Germany has the biggest gas sorage capacity in Europe.

https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_europes_vulnerability...

A possibly better strategy would be to produce DME using excess capacity and convert diesel vehicle engines to DME. Then export both the cars, the fuel and the tech to produce the fuel locally. Maybe even use it as input for peaker gas plants and shipping fuel. Germany has all the resources necessary to establish and lead such a market. Plus they don't need to throw away decades of investment into diesel ICE R&D. See chapter 2.2 of this article.

http://www.oil-gasportal.com/dimethyl-ether-dme-production-2

http://www.iea-amf.org/content/fuel_information/dme

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by Kliment on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:07AM (#17716538)

Germany already uses large amounts of gas, mainly for heating, hot water, and cooking. It's not like using coal for electricity changes the fact that Germany depends on gas imports.

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