Re:EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
by freemint on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:45PM
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I am curious how well the new Lithium free batteries CATL is working on will perform at 10% extra volume and half as expensive they could be enough to make power-to-gas to expensive.
Re:EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
by mlyle on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:16PM
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Yup, battery improvements may neutralize power-to-gas --- though there's a lot of reasons to consider it as useful (in addition to gas-to-power there's a whole lot of users of natural gas and not all may be easily retrofitted).
Still, I think a share of decent, predictable base load makes everything easier, and that's where nuclear can shine.
Thank you for putting this more clearly than I could.
Europe's got to move to more heat pumps and more industrial use of electricity to be greener. Then the question becomes: where is the best source of that electricity?
Maybe some of it can be very efficient natural gas plants-- especially if power-to-gas provides viable to eat up solar surpluses during the day. But nuclear is a good thing to have in the mix, too.