
Gravity storage and shipping green hydrogen - hype or hope
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
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The Liquid Natural Gas Market Is a Dead End Market
In theory, you're creating green hydrogen with electrolysis of water using wind and solar energy that's firm by storage. But then you have to spend another quarter of the energy that's embodied in the hydrogen just to get it to the point where it's shipable. The compression process is an expense, an operating expense, not a capital cost. I haven't broken the numbers out that way. It's about right. It's 27% or so. As he say, it's very energy intensive and of course that green hydrogen is coming from somewhere.
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