By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Vast salt caverns designed to store hydrogen are to be excavated under Britain’s biggest former naval base as part of plans to bolster the country’s energy security.
Each the size of St Paul’s Cathedral, the 19 caverns will be dug under Portland Harbour in Dorset and filled with enough hydrogen to fuel a power station for days.
The hydrogen contained in the caverns will be reserved for emergency use and called upon when wind and solar farms are not generating enough energy to keep Britain’s lights on.
Claire Coutinho, the energy secretary, is said to have not only backed the scheme but also altered the Government’s hydrogen storage business policy to ensure it can secure taxpayer subsidies.
UK Oil and Gas (UKOG), the company behind the scheme, has said it will seek planning permission within months.
Stephen Sanderson, UKOG’s chief executive, has said he would make the application under the Government’s nationally significant infrastructure system, allowing it to bypass potential local opposition.
He said: “Portland Port is ideally situated for the construction of large salt caverns as it overlies a 450-metre thick, high-quality rock salt.”
Another Telegraph written by a journalist who clearly has not got a clue what he is talking about!
Does he seriously think “hydrogen” is a “natural gas”?
And does he really think we will only need back up power just in “emergencies”?
And does he really think that “enough hydrogen to fuel a power station for days” will be enough to keep our grid going?
And it has not even occurred to him to ask where all of this surplus renewable energy is supposed to come from.
Instead we get this chart which would be more suitable for primary school kids:
Of course, the real story here is the subsidies that the project is demanding.
Nowhere does Jonathan Leake actually how much taxpayers are going to have to stump up for this.
Worse still he does not even question how enormously expensive producing hydrogen actually is.
Instead we get this schoolboy analysis of how wonderful renewables and hydrogen are.
Just another example of how pitifully poor the Telegraph’s reporting has become.
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