Post #2770356
2026-04-11 16:01 UTC
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @burger_jaap@mastodon.social
There were mutterings about Hydrogen, which I might believe as a small % addition from entirely surplus electricity, but isn't a methane replacement; but I think the truth is much of our gas grid piping was too old, and would start leaking and blowing things up if left.
And the elimination of domestic gas is not yet accomplished.
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@marjolica@social.linux.pizza 2026-04-11 16:12
@Photo55@mastodon.social @burger_jaap@mastodon.social if we ever get to the stage of having a surplus of non-storeable renewable electricity that we might turn into hydrogen there are far more effective industrial uses for such hydrogen, replacing methane, than trying to pipe it to consumers. Heat pumps are a far more energy efficient way of heating homes than turning electricity into hydrogen and the burning it.