True Ken. I was thinking more in terms of scaleability and environmental fallout which heavily favours a "gravity battery".
...and we're back to the hammer-nail euphemism. Why aren't we forging steel in Africa using heliostats and solar lenses instead of furnaces in Germany?Ken wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 8:17 am It is true that in the industrial world there will be a large demand for green H2 but i do not believe this can just be run off EXCESS RE as the lack of consistency either time or place or amount is so sporidic that nobody could run a commercial operation from it and it must be debatable if a electrolyser can be run intermittently. I think it takes 30mins to get the plant up to speed ?
The production of green H2 will just become a load and be produced in countries which have vast amounts of potential for RE eg Australia.
Do we need an industrial complex churning out endless amounts of consumable manufactured obsolecence?
Can we build things to last and cease with materialised status symbols?
I think that there will be no green transition without a lifestyle change. Let's face it western society is entrenched in decadance, propaganda agents (aka marketing aka paying for our own corrupt biases) and middlemen.
If wealth was commodity backed, patents were abolished, the state was digitised, goods and services were traded at cost the profit being their productivity and engineering was open source then business as usual would be a downgrade.
***not having a go.. just my €0.02**
Methane cracking. Assuming someone else (taxpayers) assume the burden of cleaning up the mess (climate fallout)
Energy production isn't the problem. It's lack of stakeholder participation.