I think there is a lot more value in burning propane for heating houses. Especially in places (like Europe where I live) that are already build to use gas for heating.
Especially if you consider the massive gas-storage facilities that are common here. We have 12 billion cubic meters of gas-storage here in the Netherlands, on a yearly consumption of 40 billion. That means we could use 'green propane' to load-shift about 30% of our heating from winter to summer. That would be amazing.
And if you sneeze at propane it becomes liquid (-42C). Not sure how natural gas is stored though.
Heating use is indeed very obvious, and so is transportation use. Many countries have an elaborate distribution network for LPG and fitting a car to run on LPG is also very easy.
Mostly stored underground, but it's also shipped and stored in a liquefied state at -162C. Propane is one of the components of natural gas, so I would think any facility that is able to store natural gas should be able to store propane easily.
I think there is a lot more value in burning propane for heating houses. Especially in places (like Europe where I live) that are already build to use gas for heating.
Especially if you consider the massive gas-storage facilities that are common here. We have 12 billion cubic meters of gas-storage here in the Netherlands, on a yearly consumption of 40 billion. That means we could use 'green propane' to load-shift about 30% of our heating from winter to summer. That would be amazing.