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"Hydrogen is unsuitable for use in home heating, and likely to remain so,
despite the hopes of the UK government and plumbing industry, a comprehensive
review of scientific papers has concluded.
Hydrogen lobbyists are out in force at the Labour party conference this week,
sponsoring several events in Liverpool, and will be plentiful at the
Conservative party conference that begins this weekend.
They are hoping to persuade the UK government to push ahead with a mooted
large-scale rollout of hydrogen for home heating, as a replacement for the gas
used to heat the vast majority of British homes. Hydrogen proponents say it
would avoid households having to replace gas boilers with heat pumps, the other
main contender for low-carbon home heating.
But researchers reviewed 32 studies of hydrogen and concluded that it was
unlikely to play a major role in home heating, either as a full replacement for
fossil fuel gas heating, or as a blend with natural gas.
Jan Rosenow, Europe director at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an energy
thinktank, and co-author of the study, said there were too many technical
difficulties to overcome to make hydrogen a viable and economic low-carbon
heating fuel.
“Using hydrogen for heating may sound attractive at first glance. However, all
of the independent research on this topic comes to the same conclusion: heating
with hydrogen is a lot less efficient and more expensive than alternatives such
as heat pumps, district heating and solar thermal,” he said."
Indirectly via Christoph S.
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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