Thank you for shedding light on the hydrogen hubs. Do you have any recommended resources to learn more about how hydrogen can be used for battery storage?
Glad you enjoyed it! Hydrogen isn't used as battery storage per se but rather it can be used as an energy sink or an energy source. Maybe the simplest example is using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The resulting hydrogen can be stored in a tank and released later to burn, resulting in heat that can be used to boil water and turn a turbine to create electricity. This is obviously somewhat inefficient but better than wasting electricity generated by a solar farm on a very sunny day. There's more info from the DOE on other ways this can be done that are more efficient as well https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage
Thank you for shedding light on the hydrogen hubs. Do you have any recommended resources to learn more about how hydrogen can be used for battery storage?
Glad you enjoyed it! Hydrogen isn't used as battery storage per se but rather it can be used as an energy sink or an energy source. Maybe the simplest example is using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The resulting hydrogen can be stored in a tank and released later to burn, resulting in heat that can be used to boil water and turn a turbine to create electricity. This is obviously somewhat inefficient but better than wasting electricity generated by a solar farm on a very sunny day. There's more info from the DOE on other ways this can be done that are more efficient as well https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage