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pydrylast Monday at 4:04 PM0 repliesview on HN

Gas complements everything well. It's relatively cheap, easy to store power in large amounts and completely dispatchable. Nothing else can do all 3.

Batteries work well for short term day-to-day storage but they're impossibly expensive for seasonal storage which we will need a solution for for the last ~5-10% of decarbonization.

Probably the only way to fully decarbonize will eventually be to synthesize gas.