Energy Tradeoffs Podcast #16 – Todd Davidson

For this week’s EnergyTradeoffs.com podcast interview, we have David Spence interviewing Todd Davidson, his colleague at the University of Texas, about Todd’s research on “Long-term storage needs, ‘green gases,’ & the energy transition.”

Todd and David’s discussion focuses on one of the most pressing problems with increasing reliance on solar and wind power: how to store the energy from these sources for use during periods where they are unavailable. He notes some of the reasons that lithium-ion batteries are, at best, only able to address a small part of this problem. And he explores the potential of storing renewable energy as hydrogen gas.

The interview principally draws on two of Todd’s recent articles: one is titled, “A Review of Four Case Studies Assessing the Potential for Penetration of Hydrogen Energy in a Future Energy System“, the other is, “Impacts of renewable hydrogen production from wind energy in electricity markets on potential hydrogen demand for light-duty vehicles.” 

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