While solar deployment is accelerating, bottlenecks in the wind industry are jeopardizing the chance to meet a global target to triple renewable capacity by 2030.

While wind is more expensive than solar, and has issues highlighted in article, the higher capacity factors, and production outside of midday, means less battery capacity is needed to serve renewables, and batteries get charged more often.

A key to bringing down transmission costs for wind, especially offshore where transmission is the highest cost component, is hydrogen production. Picking up H2, or refueling, by trucks and ships can provide cheaper energy than transmission lines. Pipelines are even cheaper with enough volume, and double as storage.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    You should read what you linked. It says:

    • the hydrogen leaks more than natural gas
    • this type of plastic degrades even when not in use
    • they have not looked into the issue of hydrogen diffusing out trough the plastic

    I wouldn’t say a pipe underground that you have to dig up every year to check if it’s not falling apart on it’s own is a great option