Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref...
by panick21_ on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:05PM
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As always the much better solution would be to build dedicated nuclear plants that operate at really high thermal energy and use that to make they hydrogen.
Nuclear neat is totally green, you actually get 100% utility out of the plant rather then having constant highly inefficient 'start-stop' operations.
And its actually a better less complex process then electrolysis.
But I guess its much better to absurdly gigantically over-provision renewables so one in a while we can run electrolysers and then by inefficent fossil fuels to drive inefficent electrolysers the rest of the time.
And its not at all clear that hydrogen as storage is actually a good idea, and its also not at all clear its the only thing that scales. It very much unproven at the kind of production scale AND storage scale you suggest. And even in the best case its incredibly inefficient and incredibly expensive make/store/produce.
Something like Iron based batteries will likely turn out to be a better solution.
Nuclear neat is totally green, you actually get 100% utility out of the plant rather then having constant highly inefficient 'start-stop' operations.
And its actually a better less complex process then electrolysis.
But I guess its much better to absurdly gigantically over-provision renewables so one in a while we can run electrolysers and then by inefficent fossil fuels to drive inefficent electrolysers the rest of the time.
And its not at all clear that hydrogen as storage is actually a good idea, and its also not at all clear its the only thing that scales. It very much unproven at the kind of production scale AND storage scale you suggest. And even in the best case its incredibly inefficient and incredibly expensive make/store/produce.
Something like Iron based batteries will likely turn out to be a better solution.