Posted on 05/20/2024 6:24:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Europe is saying goodbye to natural gas for good with a superturbine that will produce the substitute energy. Although demand for natural gas has fallen in recent years, the continent remains dependent on it as an alternative to coal, a fossil fuel it wants to replace with pure hydrogen. However, to achieve this, a combustion system must first emerge that can work efficiently with any concentration of H mix, including 100%.
Different nations aim to achieve decarbonization through a gradual energy transition. In this search for new alternatives to fossil fuels, hydrogen has many possibilities. Its production for energy purposes is a field of worldwide exploration. Moreover, investment to produce H with low carbon emissions is growing.
Already in 2022, Spain was leading 20% of the world’s new H projects. “Just for context, China’s current consumption is 20 million tons of hydrogen. This is the same amount that Europe needs to produce in 2030 to replace Russian gas,” says Africa Castro, head of business development at the firm H2B2, in the H2 podcast.
Europe has a superturbine to accelerate hydrogen deployment
This is no small thing. Talk of a turbine capable of running on 100% hydrogen is a big word, or at least it was until now. The FLEX4H2 initiative is being funded by the European Union and the Swiss government and has shown that this possibility exists in just one year of research.
The Italian company Ansaldo Energia has developed the GT36 turbine, which has been commissioned in Germany with 100% H concentration. It is an H-class turbine, a sophisticated type of gas turbine designed to achieve extremely high efficiencies and operating temperatures.
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Clean water is far more scarce than coal, oil or natgas.
And it takes energy to produce the hydrogen.
Like a "progressive" smugly driving their Prius, while charging it with electricity from a coal fired plant.
More energy to split than received by burning.
BTW, my comment was tongue in cheek.
FReegards.
More energy to split than received by burning.
BTW, my comment was tongue in cheek.
FReegards.
And mine was mildly sarcastic ... ;'}
“Why stop there? Gravity seems to be an impediment. Ban it.”
That would have the advantage that it would become easy to get all the hydrogen we need, since the Sun is composed mainly of hydrogen.
“From DC to gamma rays, it’s all ‘light’.”
The problem with current solar power is that it doesn’t work at night: the useful photons are all absorbed by the Earth.
But neutrinos, which the Sun also emits, travel right through the Earth. So even at midnight there are plenty of them.
The technology to generate electricity from the neutrino flux may not be quite ready yet, but it’s never too soon to add another mandate to the Green New Deal.
FR tradition!
COSMIC GALL
-John Updike
Neutrinos, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And, scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed - you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
How do they generate H2?
I’m sure they will tell you Solar.
Fools
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