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Offline rangerrebew

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Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering
« on: January 28, 2024, 11:42:57 am »
Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering
JANUARY 26, 2024
 
By Paul Homewood

h/t Dennis Ambler

When green fantasies hit the brick wall of cold reality!
 
By 2035, Germany wants to produce 100% of its power in a climate-neutral way. To back up wind turbines and solar panels, whose production is expected to dominate in the coming years, the government initially envisioned a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants.

But these plans are now faltering amid a prolonged government budgetary crisis, said Sigfried Russwurm, the president of Germany’s powerful industry association BDI.

In early August 2023, the German government triumphantly announced that the European Commission had essentially greenlit its plan for subsidised backup power plants.

That meant 8.8 GW of dedicated hydrogen power plants, alongside 15 GW of natural gas-powered ones that ought to switch to hydrogen by 2035 at the latest, in total representing about one-third of the German peak power demand of 2023. Climate-friendly power at the press of a button.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/germanys-dream-of-building-a-fleet-of-hydrogen-fired-power-plants-is-faltering/
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Re: Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2024, 11:02:09 pm »
How many BTU's of fossil fuels does it take to produce a BTU equivalent of hydrogen...?  How much does that cost?
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Re: Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2024, 01:34:13 am »
This is by far the stupidest idea I have ever heard.  How much electricity does it take to create the hydrogen that is burned to create electricity?
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