Two different ways of transporting energy are available to researchers.
The first would be to place electric cables between Greenland and Europe via Iceland, Ireland and England, which would repatriate electricity.
The second solution would be to use the electricity generated by the wind turbines to carry out an electrolysis of water in order to recover hydrogen which would be repatriated by boat to Europe.
Another interesting idea would be to also capture CO2 in the atmosphere and react it with hydrogen. Such reactions might produce all possible “CH” chains, i.e. all possible hydrocarbons, including CH4, natural gas whose price is extremely high at the moment. The cost assumptions are between 70 and 200€/MWh once morest almost 300€/MWh at the moment for natural gas on the gas markets.
We might still ask ourselves the question of the impact on biodiversity in Greenland. Xavier Fettweis and Damien Ernst are reassuring on the subject. It is a very desert place, without vegetation and with very few animals, only a few birds. Due to the very bad climate of Greenland, biodiversity is therefore extremely low. It is not very pleasant to go and live in this area permanently, the weather conditions are so bad. We might therefore easily set up a wind farm in this type of extremely sparsely populated area.
