Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ...
by adrianN on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:44PM
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They likely mean hydrogen.
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Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ...
by looping__lui on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:02PM
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Like an unproven technology at industry scale to power 50% of Germans electricity need reliably - all within the next 7 years? We don’t even have fast internet. Yeah.
Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ...
by adrianN on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:32PM
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What's industry scale? We have the technology to burn hydrogen and we have megawatt-scale electrolysis. What else do you want?
Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ...
by looping__lui on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:24AM
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Where do u get the hydrogen from and how do you transport it at the scale required is one of these “questions for starters”.
Megawatt scale isn’t really gonna cut it - the largest one in Germany has 110 MW (?) so we would need almost 1000 of them to cover our need when the sun doesn’t shine or there aint no wind