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Letter: Let's invest in storage for the drive to zero carbon

Published 16 June 2021

From Chris Eve, Lynton, Devon, UK

The UK government seems wedded to colossally expensive power generation projects to supply baseload electrical energy: first nuclear, now bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (5 June, p 13).

But it is energy storage, not baseload, that we need in the transition to renewable power. I wonder how feasible it would be to convert gas-fired power stations to burn hydrogen produced from wind or solar power, storing the hydrogen until needed?

Issue no. 3339 published 19 June 2021

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