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by namibj
1709 days ago
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Hydrogen requires minimal modifications to gas turbines, notably the combustors need to be swapped out. Storage and distribution works the same as for fossil methane (pressurized in cave systems/old gas wells). Production is simple, and we yes, the efficiency is around 20-30% round-trip.
But that's enough to handle up to ~30% of electricity supply with less than 2x overcapacity. And that's assuming you don't just slap carbon capture on a gas turbine you feed with fractionally distilled oxygen (>99% should be easily enough) and enough exhaust back-feed to not melt the turbine blades. A diesel would probably deal better with the combustion temperatures, though. And Fischer–Tropsch can turn captured carbon into piston-engine-suitable liquid fuel, if you'd need to. |
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