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Green Hydrogen

Clean electricity generation from wind and solar has been and is continuing to be spectacularly successful. Wind will keep pumping out the gigawatts at night when the demand is low, and solar will produce excess electricity during the summer daylight hours, again when demand is relatively low, domestically at least.

Production of ‘Green Hydrogen’ is very energy intensive so it seems logical to me to use the wind, solar, hydro surplus to produce and store hydrogen.

Here’s an interesting video about Green Hydrogen;

The ‘Holy Grail’ of Green Energy – Energy Storage …

… What would be even more impressive would be to use excess wind generated electricity to produce Hydrogen, a green, clean gas that can use existing infrastructure. Even domestic home heating boilers can be converted to run on Hydrogen.

“Last year was a record breaker for the UK’s wind power industry.“

The idea of using excess wind energy to make hydrogen has sparked great interest, not least because governments are looking to move towards greener energy systems within the next 30 years, under the terms of the Paris climate agreement. 

Hydrogen is predicted to be an important component in these systems and may be used in vehicles or in power plants. But for that to happen, production of the gas, which produces zero greenhouse gas emissions when burned, will need to dramatically increase in the coming decades.

Read more: The global race to produce hydrogen offshore