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Solving for Storage - Ep122: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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The Cost of Storage in Salt Caverns

Hydrogen in salt caverns is your sort of base case and just having more salt caverns only affects that middle third of the cost of the storage. So when you look at these very long-term variations in wind supply which are a lot to do with what's called the North Atlantic oscillation changes. Now that means you've got to have some storage which will last 10 years or something like that. I mean you'd be bankrupt immediately if you tried to use batteries. If there's a large capital cost sitting there just storing things it better be as small as possible.

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