'A complete failure' Japan's 'fantasy' hydrogen strategy does nothing

Re:'A complete failure' Japan's 'fantasy' hydrogen strategy ... by widdershins on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:14AM (#34486607)

> behind each wind turbine field there is a very real gas turbine or lignite power plant

But isn't it still better to be using wind turbines 75% of the time when it's windy, and gas/coal only 25% of the time when it's not? Surely even without adequate battery storage that's an improvement?

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Re:'A complete failure' Japan's 'fantasy' hydrogen strategy ... by Xixi on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:30AM (#34486964)

It’s not replacing gas/coal but nuclear, so CO2 wise it is a major step back…

Germany first replaced nuclear by lignite, then lignite by wind + lignite/gas, so if you only look at the second step it doesn’t look so bad. But if you look at the whole picture it doesn’t look so good.

France is coming from 75% nuclear and 25% hydro, and has no business adding and firing up gas turbines.

Of course I’m painting things in broad strokes… reality is always a little bit more subtle.

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