Their study lends scientific supportto several such projects underway in Europe aimed at proving that hydrogen gas, converted from water via electrolysis – think of it as natural gas minus the polluting carbon – and stored, for example, in subterranean salt caverns, can smooth out fluctuations inherent in solar and wind energy. It builds in part on two recent studies at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, which conclude that, as Carnegie atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira put it, “there is more than enough energy available in winds to power all of civilization.”
欧洲的一些在建项目旨在证明来自水电解并（比如）储藏在地下盐井中的氢气——相当于天然气除去了致污的碳元素——能够平滑太阳能和风能的内在波动性，坎普顿和巴蒂沙克的研究支持这些项目。这项研究基于斯坦福大学和卡耐基研究所的两项最新研究，正如卡耐基研究所大气科学家卡德拉（Ken Caldeira）所说，这两项研究认为“风能中蕴藏着足以满足文明需求的能量。”