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Originally Posted by Paul
What use is that, hardly anyone uses Hydrogen.
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The pathway to reducing our national dependence on natural gas will almost certainly involve mixing hydrogen into the public gas supply. There’s simply no way the purported alternative (everyone gets a heat pump) will fly. They require space not everybody has and when you have entire streets of them, they’re noisy. They also draw a lot of electricity which the regional distribution networks might not always have capacity for.
The greenest way of getting hydrogen is to use excess renewable energy to electrolyse water (the alternative involves converting natural gas but while it’s a more efficient process it’s also self defeating if we’re trying to reduce our dependence on it).
Centrica can probably make a credible business case for investing in Rough if it has a long term future, which under present government net zero policies it doesn’t, because it has a load of natural gas storage capacity everyone is telling Centrica they don’t need in the long term. But if they have permission to convert it to hydrogen storage they can probably work with that.