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by kitkat_new 1576 days ago
so you store the energy using hydrogen, and import energy in form of hydrogen from southern regions
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realusername 1576 days ago
that further decreases the efficiency and it's not feasible to store even a month of usage with that.
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kitkat_new 1576 days ago
why not? Germany used to store much higher amounts of gas: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Artikel/Energy/gas-instrume....
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_ph_ 1576 days ago
Right. And switching heating to heat pumps driven mostly by renewables will mean a large reduction in gas required in total.
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zardo 1576 days ago
We've pulled awful lot of natural gas out of the ground, it seems like there ought to be room for more than a months worth down there.
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