Because electricity is traditionally sent very short distances. It’s too bad that this is going away. Your renewable energy resource may be thousands of miles away in the future.
PS: It was a pipeline that sent natural gas to your local gas turbine power plant. If electricity losses was always going to be 5%, why did that pipeline exist at all?
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3
5%. You’re talking about 5% of energy transmitted is lost. So you’re going to start a hydrogen revolution with 5%?
I get it, you’ve found a thing you can be a champion for. But you’re blinded to the real world by your overzealous fandom.
Because electricity is traditionally sent very short distances. It’s too bad that this is going away. Your renewable energy resource may be thousands of miles away in the future.
PS: It was a pipeline that sent natural gas to your local gas turbine power plant. If electricity losses was always going to be 5%, why did that pipeline exist at all?
P.S.: My power plant doesn’t burn hydrogen.
I literally said natural gas…