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2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

We always used to have a blend of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and nitrogen before 1967

Yeah coal gas - made by burning coal without oxygen - similar to charcoal making.  Terrible for the environment and the gas itself was poisonous.  This new development is not to do with coal gas - but it sounds a little pointless to me.  They are saying they could use up to 20% hydrogen.  Maybe it would be better to use the money to subsidise good quality house insulation.  And I don't mean the awful debacle of government sponsored cavity wall insulation, but properly specified and installed insulation.  It is a minefield though, I will admit.  

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1 hour ago, neiln said:

The BBC article says 1/3 of our carbon emissions come from domestic heating with gas.

Yes the article does state this, but of course this was written by a journalist and I am pretty certain this is nonsense!  Not easy to prove without spending the afternoon trawling the web though, so maybe someone more in the know can shed some light on this?

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5 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

Yes the article does state this, but of course this was written by a journalist and I am pretty certain this is nonsense!  Not easy to prove without spending the afternoon trawling the web though, so maybe someone more in the know can shed some light on this?

Not a million miles away by the looks of it.

 

Image below from government figures and quick google suggests 85% of heating is provided by gas

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On 26/12/2019 at 14:44, donnk said:

 

 

Dont get me wrong I do like heat pumps, really good for underfloor heating BUT no good for hot water and expensive install. 

 

 

 

 

Expensive to instal well yes relatively but ours wasn't anything like the figures you hear banded around these days. When we first had our GSHP I worked out in the summer we were using 2.38 kWh a day for hot water. At 15P per kWh thats just 35p a day 

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Slightly off topic, but I was on a stag do recently. One of the guys was an engine engineer boffin, and another was high up in Enterprise car rentals. They were both convinced that Hydrogen should be the future for car propulsion rather than electricity. There are a couple of technical challenges to overcome first though.

 

Hydrogen is by far the most abundant element in the universe so you would think it had quite a lot going for it.

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