Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Could AMERICAN GAS prevent EUROPE from FREEZING in WINTER? - VisualPolitik EN" video.
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@tnickknight - “America has way more than enough of it’s own crude”
But Democrat Biden blocked the Keystone XL, which was supposed to pipe US crude to refineries in the South.
“He [Biden] cares more about Americans, stable genius”
Which is why Democrat Biden screwed the energy producers in North West US.
Now that the illiberal Democrat screwed the Democrats in the North West US, and the native Americans who were earning money on the US energy production, no one can trust that a permit from the US government will not be revoked.
This is not stable, but ripped any sense of stability out of the regulatory agency, so US energy will limp along until there are guarantees that an unstable President, like Biden, will not arbitrarily rip the rug out from under them.
It is just another example of the corrupt #BidenCrimeFamily, looking for a kick back, instead of caring about their liberal North West states, their liberal northern neighbor of Canada, and their liberal European neighbors on the other side of the pond.
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@evilsimeon - “1/3rd energy density and requires energy to produce it”
Yep. Many renewables outside Hydro don’t have a way to store their power for any period of time, making them inherently unreliable & less valuable.
What makes energy valuable is the ability to store it until it is needed. The sunlight is available about half the time & not truly valued.
How much energy does it take to cut trees, split wood, stack wood, and move it to to be burned? It is not a terribly efficient process. Wood is still used as a renewable energy source, largely because it is local.
Sure, H2 can be a carrier of energy, but it can be 100% used in Europe, by Europe, for Europe, making Europe energy independent. H2 can be local. H2 can be made more portable than wood, by storing in portable tanks. H2 is more easily transported in pipes. H2 usage basically creates clouds, to rain somewhere else.
Efficiency is is not as important when it becomes unavailable. Civilizations need reliable & portable ways of storing energy, for later harvesting, more than they need efficient ways.
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“reliance on fossil fuels is a liability”
Actually, a single supplier is the liability.
Fossil fuels has shown it’s resilience, since there are multiple suppliers, if those who are dependent upon them have multiple ways to receive the energy.
Solar cells, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Batteries, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
The dependency on renewables, like solar & wind, on Natural Gas… is also now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Better for Europe to be investing in Natural Gas, hydrogen production to replace it, and European H2 to fill the renewable gaps.
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@markpukey8 - “expect to store that hydrogen?”
Hydrogen can be stored using six different methods and phenomena:
(1) high-pressure gas cylinders (up to 800 bar)
(2) liquid hydrogen in cryogenic tanks (at 21 K)
(3) adsorbed hydrogen on materials with a large specific surface area (at T<100 K)
(4) absorbed on interstitial sites in a host metal (at ambient pressure and temperature)
(5) chemically bonded in covalent and ionic compounds (at ambient pressure)
(6) through oxidation of reactive metals, e.g. Li, Na, Mg, Al, Zn with water.
The most common storage systems are high-pressure gas cylinders with a maximum pressure of 20 MPa (200 bar). New lightweight composite cylinders have been developed which are able to withstand pressures up to 80 MPa (800 bar) and therefore the hydrogen gas can reach a volumetric density of 36 kg.m(-3), approximately half as much as in its liquid state.
When mixed with natural gas, the same old natural gas storage facilities can be used.
“you will lose most of your hydrogen in transit”
Hydrogen is being mixed into Natural Gas in low percentages, today, in existing pipelines & equipment.
Hydrogen is being shipped across oceans, to nations like Japan.
“How much do you consider acceptable losses”
Whatever is necessary to not require blood gas from Russia, colored with the blood of Europeans.
Use small H2 percentages at first in existing natural gas lines. Infrastructure can be updated, as higher percentages of H2 are added to existing Natural Gas lines. Eventually, all the infrastructure can be replaced, decades from now.
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@markpukey8 - thank you for the complement in the copy paste!
“You keep imagining…”
That Australia built & shipped Hydrogen to Japan, New Zealand & Canada are building hydrogen export facilities, Georgia [in the US] had successfully run existing generation facilities on 20% H2 mixed with NG, Japan opens 10 MegaWatt Hydrogen Plant, Japan has 160 hydrogen filling stations, etc.
“is more expensive…”
Spot energy prices rise to be more expensive than the energy produced by burning hydrogen, so if hydrogen was only used during peaks - it would be acceptable to existing markets today, allowing NG to be used for non-peak times. Once production is done in mass quantities, it will get cheaper.
“there’s a reason we’re not doing it right now”
Europe cited Ukraine as a future Hydrogen partner… so yes, there is a reason: Germany decided to partner with the belligerent nation that would invade Europe’s perspective H2 partner, Ukraine, not just once, but twice.
The reason is: stupidity. Maybe that was too harsh: self hatred & suicide. Pay the wolf to kill the chicken who was about to lay the proverbial ‘golden eggs’ for Europe.
“help Germany and Europe next month”
They could have started injecting low percentages of hydrogen into existing NG pipelines. It sux Germany was so unprepared after Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and now 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Japan can import H2. Oh well.
Germany is now accelerating investments into Hydrogen. New liquid LNG ports will be able process H2 as: synthetic LNG, Green Ammonia, with reasonably simple adaptations.
Transport of hydrogen into Germany by sea will likely happen via liquified synthetic LNG or green ammonia at these ports.
H2 will eventually replace NG.
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