China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal

Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by macspoofing on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:21AM (#39442333)

There is no infrastructure for mass hydrogen extraction, transport and storage. Hydrogen, at grid-scale, is not currently a viable technology. It may never be viable at that scale.

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Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by adrianN on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:08PM (#39443796)

There is infra for methane which can be retrofitted.

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Re:China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal by macspoofing on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:22AM (#39481656)

What do you mean it "CAN" be retrofitted? Based on what?

The fact is there is NO infrastructure for any of this. It's also a fact that there are MAJOR (and unsolved) challenges with building out a hydrogen collection/storage/transport (regardless of the source) infrastructure at scale. It's why it hasn't been done even though many governments throw billions into non-fossil fuel initiatives (and even close down working nuclear reactors).

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