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awjr on Jan 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Will the UK's gas holders be missed?

Thought storing Hydrogen was notoriously hard because it can penetrates rather effectively through pretty much anything.

chrisb on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

I can't find a reference now, but as I understand it this isn't so much of an issue at low pressure.

Apparently underground low pressure storage has been used successfully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#Underground_hy...

KaiserPro on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas

Seemed to be not to hard with town gas (which was >50% hydrogen)

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