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Debating the transition | Simon Michaux & Nafeez Ahmed

Planet: Critical

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The 28 Day Buffer Is Over the Top

The US Department of Energy did an audit internally. And so internally they were saying that they said, is this correct? Do wind and does wind and solar underperform for several months of the year? And to do that, we need 7,675 terawatt hours to produce that hydrogen. So if we apply that, which I'm quite prepared to show on that's wrong, I still think it's a lot larger than six hours though. We need 146.2 million tons of hydrogen to deliver than the 28 day buffer.

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