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To: Tell It Right

If I were ever even considering storing something like hydrogen on site, it’d be in an underground tank. Last thing you want is a risk that something ignites it and you have an explosion with tank shrapnel sailing through the yard. Battery storage is safer (not perfectly safe, but safer) and works great in the event of a power outage if you’re in an area with unreliable service. If not, there’s no need for storage. The grid itself becomes a form of storage.

That hydrogen will need a generator burning it and a system to feed it. Between that and the hydrolizer, there’s a lot of expensive and complicated components that can break. And I’m not sure what that’s really buying you. For the grid at large, nuclear power for base load makes the most sense and enables us to use whatever power we actually need rather than having to turn off every light bulb that isn’t absolutely necessary.


51 posted on 06/15/2021 9:51:52 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
Hydrogen doesn't need a burner. A hydrogen fuel cell produces electricity with the only byproduct being water (because the fuel cell pulled in oxygen from the air). If you've heard of hydrogen powered cars, at the end of the day those cars are nothing but EV's with the exception that the electricity doesn't come from a battery but from a hydrogen fuel cell making the electricity like I just described.


Out where I live in a fairly rural suburb there are many people 10 miles from me living in houses fueled by large propane tanks sitting out in their yard. So large that when they need more fuel it's delivered in a large truck (and pumped into the tank). Nothing every happens with them. It's very rare I've heard of an explosion or fire with propane tanks in my lifetime. And that's with propane not being light enough to rise up harmlessly away from everybody if there's a leak like hydrogen does.


Just like solar, that won't work for everybody. But for many of us libertarian minded folks who move way out of the cities to get away from control-freak libs, it's an option I'm researching. Especially with the control-freak libs using global warming as excuse to take over more and more control of our energy consumption.

52 posted on 06/15/2021 10:05:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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