Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?

Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable? by pencilguin on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:24AM (#33367992)

There is on fact no such issue because literally no one is even considering producing hydrogen for energy storage in that way.

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Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable? by Manuel_D on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:06PM (#33375022)

Then how is hydrogen going to be stored? Electrolysis remains either inefficient or expensive.

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Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable? by pencilguin on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:41PM (#33375604)

Storage method has exactly nothing to do with production method.

Electrolysis efficiency and expense are entirely sufficient to requirements.

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Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable? by Schroedingersat on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:20PM (#33380669)

Inefficiency doesn't matter if you are storing curtailed energy.

If it makes more financial sense and uses less resources to overbuild solar 3x and curtail 60% of the energy than paying for fuel, then you have 2 units of energy you have already paid for spread out over 6-8hrs/day.

As long as using your $300/kw electrolyser at reduced duty cycle is cheaper and less resource intensive than mining and shipping gas, you do it.

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