Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
by ClumsyPilot on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:18AM
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fuel synthesis is one of the few trully plausible solutions to the storage problem, but i am not sure it will be cheaper - hydrogen is so much more difficult to handle than petrolium.
I am not up to date with ammonia based processed.
Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
by ncmncm on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:03AM
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There are many obviously practical storage methods.
Ammonia and hydrogen are attractive because you can sell extra production after your local tankage is full, keeping your synthesis equipment busy whenever you are not drawing down your storage.
They can add transmission lines, for cheaper importation.
As fuel synthesis -- ammonia and hydrogen -- comes online and undercuts NG, they can import that instead, at times when their transmission line power capacity or availability is exceeded.
Fuel synthesis from solar in the tropics undercutting NG extraction will be a big business. Synthesis using reliable wind, in other places, likewise.
In the meantime, as minority participants, their contribution to the ongoing climate catastrophe is relatively small.