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Re:Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas by pfdietz on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:19AM (#39927779)
The economics of storing hydrogen for long periods is just fine, compared to the economics of storing energy in batteries for long periods.
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Re:Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas by pbmonster on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:41AM (#39927916)
> compared to the economics of storing energy in batteries for long periods

Which doesn't say much, since practically nobody is doing that.

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Re:Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas by sebstefan on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:26AM (#39928553)
Relevant graph

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/17r9q6s/oc...

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Re:Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas by jillesvangurp on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:46AM (#39927969)
Also the need for this long term storage is never quantified by those we need it. Put a twh number on it and the problem melts away. We're actually producing batteries by the twh per year now.
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Re:Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas by pfdietz on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:57AM (#39951289)
People (particularly nuke bros, including some at MIT) are doing it in their arguments purporting to show 100% renewable grids are not feasible.
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