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Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

His Divine Shadow posted:

The frequency got away from them too, it's not easy handling such a shifting load.

Frequency shift up means lower power transfer through the grid doesn't it? Would seem a bit weird if they're trying to handle a generation surplus?

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Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib
I've seen the carbon capture project at Sleipner mentioned as an example of a successful scheme. That's worth examining because it's also some of the lowest hanging fruit. The CO2 being captured and injected constitutes about 10% of the gas coming out of the well in the first place, which has always needed to be separated off but dumped to atmosphere rather than captured.
So CCS at scale is perfectly feasible if you have a massive tax incentive from the Norwegian government, most of the injection infrastructure is already in place, your extraction process is something you're already doing and you have a concentrated waste product.
For comparison, the exhaust from a combined cycle gas station is about 5% CO2 and atmospheric CO2 is .04%.

Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

karthun posted:

Where is that CO2 being stored and what happens when, not if, that storage breaks down?

Sleipner is a gas field in the North Sea, so the CO2 they extract is put back into the strata it's been occupying for a couple of million years.

Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

Tuna-Fish posted:

It is actually possible to build hydrogen generation infrastructure that will store that much energy
What form does this storage take? I was under the impression that hydrogen is a fucker to store.

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