by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Economic of H2 Production
The cost of electrolyzers has dropped precipitously in the past few years and is expected to continue to do so. Just five years ago costs were quoted in the range of $2,000 per kilowatt and they are under half that today, expected to continue to drop rapidly as...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Potential Applications
Using electricity to make fuels and reconverting the fuels back to electricity will return at best less than 50% of the energy sent to storage back to the electric grid with today’s technology. Battery and pumped hydro storage is in the range of 85-95% efficient. The...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Potential Applications
There is about a 20% loss of energy in the process of combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide to make methane. See: Methanation the Key to the Natural Gas Grid, Schildhauer (web...
by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Potential Applications
Transportation fuels are more expensive on an energy basis (i.e., dollars per BTU) than other fuels and are usually thought to be the lowest hanging fruit, especially in conjunction with low carbon fuel standards that accord and additional financial incentive based on...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Transportation and Storage
The Northwest is blessed with comparatively large amounts of energy storage in the form of water in reservoirs behind dams in the Columbia River drainage basin. That storage is leveraged to good purpose today to balance the variability of wind and solar on the system,...
